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Garg
rave C
of E
Prim
ary
School
Thurs
day 1
5th
Octo
ber
2015
Gargrave CE (VC) Primary School, Neville
Road, Gargrave, BD23 3RE
Tel: 01756 749433 Fax: 01756 749463
Email: admin@gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk
Website: www.gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk
See overleaf for
Holly Eyles (super reading)
Lola Dobson (excellent behaviour)
Ayaan Ali (knowing space facts—confident)
Samuel Blackwell (fantastic number task homework)
Lars Keyworth (perseverance with his can work)
Daisy Hill (working hard during paired reading)
Emma Hargraves and Megan Webb (for kindness towards other children)
Ollie Metcalfe (not giving up with his tricky work)
Zara Pratt (expressive brainbuilder work)
Every Child Counts: Every Child Contributes Issue 6
James Walton-Brown
Skipping For Schools—Wednesday 21st October
We have invited Sports Skipping for Schools to host an all day skipping coaching
session where our children will have the opportunity to learn a range of skipping
skills. Skipping on a regular basis will help improve general levels of fitness and,
along with the different skipping skills and challenges taught during the day,
children will gain new found confidence in their own physical abilities. Parents are
invited to attend the presentation at the end of the day ay 2.50pm. Ropes will
also be available to buy on the day only at a cost of £4.00 each.
White Ribbons
Vacancy—Midday Supervisor
We are looking for a fun person who can work alongside the lunchtime staff to
ensure a safe, happy and active lunchtime. The person will be fully supported by
the other members of staff—5 hrs per week, working everyday 12.00pm – 1.00pm
Term Time Only. Closing date for applications ~ Friday 6th November 2015. The job
is advertised on the NYCC website or you can obtain an application pack from
school.
Vacancy—Kitchen Assistant
We have a vacancy for a general kitchen assistant to cover long term maternity
leave. It is for 2 hours per day (11.30am-1.30pm). To apply or ask any further
questions, please contact Vivienne Sadler on 07779788585.
Parents evening
Thanks to every parent for attending to discuss the learning of your child. Feed-
back from parents included requests for a maths calculations evening and a
meeting about assessment without levels. We shall arrange both for after half
term, dates to follow. Parents of pupils in years 2 and 6 were given copies of the
criteria for a child to be awarded ‘national standard’. There are higher expecta-
tions on the pupils in all areas of the curriculum. We also had out sample test ma-
terials for both these year groups, these are available on-line – just search for sam-
ple national tests. In the spring term we shall give you more details of the tests and
the teacher assessment.
Clubs
Apologies as a few parents thought that the clubs were on this week, but they
weren’t because of parents’ evenings. They are on next week.
Oak Class
We have had a report of head lice, please check your child's hair and treat. Also
could you bring in an old shirt for the children to wear when they are doing art.
APPLE This week in Apple class we have focused on
Phonics and Maths activities. In our Phonics sessions
we have covered c, ck, and e. The children have
read words and phrases and draw pictures. In
Maths we have worked on weight and counting
and comparing different sets of objects. Thank you
for coming to our parent consultation evenings and we hope you found them useful.
OAK This week Oak class have been working really hard on their grammar and have been
coming up with some fantastic adverbs and adjectives to make sentences more
interesting. We have also focused on using some tricky punctuation; using colons, semi-
colons, bullet points and brackets. We really enjoyed our trip to Ilkley Literary Festival to
listen to Steve Cole talk. He gave the class lots of great ideas for their writing. In maths
we have been thinking about multiples and factors and learning how to recognise a
prime number.
WILLOW
We have been working hard this week on our
place value skills and accuracy when working
with money. Some of us have been ‘purchasing’
sports cars at Willow Class garage and working
out how much we can save. We have also been
developing skills in newspaper writing and using
peer marking to check we have all used
our Top Tips effectively.
BEECH We are really enjoying our work on measuring length this week.
Here are Monty and Minny measuring their playdough ‘snakes’
with their bead strings. We have continued to look at non-fiction
books in literacy and have been labelling features of a fire engine
and writing facts about fire engines and fire fighters. We watched
a very exciting video clip of a fire being put out.
ASH Thank you to everyone that came to Ash class assembly. We really enjoyed sharing all of
our work with you. We worked hard to speak clearly and confidently. In Maths we have
been playing games on the computer to practice our rapid recall of number bonds. We
have been looking at recycling in Science and had lots of ideas about what we could
recycle! Please can I remind all parents that we do not bring toys into school (unless it is
for show and tell—see timetable). We have had lots of upset over toys getting lost or
swapped, so please can you ensure that your children do not bring them.
Lisa’s
Kitchen
Monday 2nd November
Cheese & Tomato Pasta
Syrup Sponge & Custard
Tuesday 3rd November
Meatloaf
Raspberry Bun
Wednesday 4th November
Meat & Potato Pie
Chocolate Mandarin
Sponge
Thursday 5th November
Chicken Korma
Toffee Apple Cake &
Custard
Friday 6th November
Battered Fish
Fruit Salad
Monday 19th October Fish Fingers
Jam Roly Poly & Custard
Tuesday 20th October Pasta Bolognaise
Flapjack
Wednesday 21st October
Chicken Pie
Arctic Roll & Peaches
Thursday 22nd October Beef Hot Pot
Biscuit, Cheese & Grapes
Friday 23rd October
Sausage, Potato & Beans
Halloween Biscuits
PTA Update and Forthcoming Party
Sally, Carolyn and myself would like to say a big hello to you all! We are
looking forward to some exciting times ahead with you all in the coming
school year. As always, we welcome any fundraising ideas from you and
volunteers are always welcomed with enthusiasm!
After our first informal meeting on Friday we have a few ideas that we
would like to share with you, the first being an Autumn fancy dress
party. This will be held in school on Friday 23rd October 3.30pm til
6 pm. Please see details on posters around school.
We are also asking for donations of any magazines, as current as possible,
that you have finished with (these can be adults or children's) We aim to
leave these in reception where you may purchase one for £1.50, a great
way to catch up on the latest celebrity gossip, gardening or children's
programmes at a much reduced price!
Finally, any jam jars that you may have, please bring them in! We have
many uses for them and donations throughout the year are appreciated.
Many thanks in advance, Claire Gautam
This is the main choice—there is
a vegetarian option available
every day (as per menus
sent at the start of term)
Football Report
Joey, Lewis, George, Jonny, Thomas, Alfie, Dylan, Corey, Neive and Kitty
all played in a Y3/4 football tournament at Sandylands last Friday. The
first match was 5 nil to us, then the 2nd match was 1 nil to them, 3rd
match was 3 nil to us, 4th match was 4 nil to them and then the 5th
match was 3 nil to us. Overall we came 4th . We were really proud of our
efforts. By Joey Driscoll
Can you Help?
World Prematurity Day is observed on the 17th November to raise
awareness of pre term birth and the care of premature babies world-
wide. Approximately 15 million babies are born prematurely every year, 1
in 10 around the world.
I volunteer on the neo natal unit at Bradford Royal Infirmary on behalf of
Bliss (Bliss.org.uk) and every year on World Prematurity Day we give gifts to
everyone currently spending time on the unit. This includes purple knitted
hats, one for each child. If any of our parents, grandparents or other
family members are a dab hand at knitting and would like to help out I
would be most grateful! I will need the hats for the first week in November
ideally (they must be purple!). If you need a pattern, please visit http://
www.fiberfluxblog.com/2011/02/free-pattern.html?m=1. Thank you.
Claire Gautam
Parking – Collection
Be aware that it is VERY busy at drop off and collection times. Please
consider parking at the village hall and walking up to school.
Assemblies
Next week: Thursday 22nd October it is Willow class assembly at 9am.
Friday 23rd October – achievement assembly, pupils are invited to bring
in something to show and speak about that they have achieved outside
school.
Oak and Willow class had been challenged to write a short story about
space on the back of a postcard. Amber Dobson won 2 tickets to go to
Settle Stories to see Tales from Cosmos—a story that was set in 1910
about a man shot down 9 suns so that we only had un in the whole wide
world. It was great.
Garg
rave C
of E
Prim
ary
School
Thurs
day 1
5th
Octo
ber
2015
Gargrave CE (VC) Primary School, Neville
Road, Gargrave, BD23 3RE
Tel: 01756 749433 Fax: 01756 749463
Email: admin@gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk
Website: www.gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk
See overleaf for
Holly Eyles (super reading)
Lola Dobson (excellent behaviour)
Ayaan Ali (knowing space facts—confident)
Samuel Blackwell (fantastic number task homework)
Lars Keyworth (perseverance with his can work)
Daisy Hill (working hard during paired reading)
Emma Hargraves and Megan Webb (for kindness towards other children)
Ollie Metcalfe (not giving up with his tricky work)
Zara Pratt (expressive brainbuilder work)
Every Child Counts: Every Child Contributes Issue 6
Holly Eyles
Skipping For Schools—Wednesday 21st October
We have invited Sports Skipping for Schools to host an all day skipping coaching
session where our children will have the opportunity to learn a range of skipping
skills. Skipping on a regular basis will help improve general levels of fitness and,
along with the different skipping skills and challenges taught during the day,
children will gain new found confidence in their own physical abilities. Parents are
invited to attend the presentation at the end of the day ay 2.50pm. Ropes will
also be available to buy on the day only at a cost of £4.00 each.
White Ribbons
Vacancy—Midday Supervisor
We are looking for a fun person who can work alongside the lunchtime staff to
ensure a safe, happy and active lunchtime. The person will be fully supported by
the other members of staff—5 hrs per week, working everyday 12.00pm – 1.00pm
Term Time Only. Closing date for applications ~ Friday 6th November 2015. The job
is advertised on the NYCC website or you can obtain an application pack from
school.
Vacancy—Kitchen Assistant
We have a vacancy for a general kitchen assistant to cover long term maternity
leave. It is for 2 hours per day (11.30am-1.30pm). To apply or ask any further
questions, please contact Vivienne Sadler on 07779788585.
Parents evening
Thanks to every parent for attending to discuss the learning of your child. Feed-
back from parents included requests for a maths calculations evening and a
meeting about assessment without levels. We shall arrange both for after half
term, dates to follow. Parents of pupils in years 2 and 6 were given copies of the
criteria for a child to be awarded ‘national standard’. There are higher expecta-
tions on the pupils in all areas of the curriculum. We also had out sample test ma-
terials for both these year groups, these are available on-line – just search for sam-
ple national tests. In the spring term we shall give you more details of the tests and
the teacher assessment.
Clubs
Apologies as a few parents thought that the clubs were on this week, but they
weren’t because of parents’ evenings. They are on next week.
Oak Class
We have had a report of head lice, please check your child's hair and treat. Also
could you bring in an old shirt for the children to wear when they are doing art.
APPLE This week in Apple class we have focused on
Phonics and Maths activities. In our Phonics sessions
we have covered c, ck, and e. The children have
read words and phrases and draw pictures. In
Maths we have worked on weight and counting
and comparing different sets of objects. Thank you
for coming to our parent consultation evenings and we hope you found them useful.
OAK This week Oak class have been working really hard on their grammar and have been
coming up with some fantastic adverbs and adjectives to make sentences more
interesting. We have also focused on using some tricky punctuation; using colons, semi-
colons, bullet points and brackets. We really enjoyed our trip to Ilkley Literary Festival to
listen to Steve Cole talk. He gave the class lots of great ideas for their writing. In maths
we have been thinking about multiples and factors and learning how to recognise a
prime number.
WILLOW
We have been working hard this week on our
place value skills and accuracy when working
with money. Some of us have been ‘purchasing’
sports cars at Willow Class garage and working
out how much we can save. We have also been
developing skills in newspaper writing and using
peer marking to check we have all used
our Top Tips effectively.
BEECH We are really enjoying our work on measuring length this week.
Here are Monty and Minny measuring their playdough ‘snakes’
with their bead strings. We have continued to look at non-fiction
books in literacy and have been labelling features of a fire engine
and writing facts about fire engines and fire fighters. We watched
a very exciting video clip of a fire being put out.
ASH Thank you to everyone that came to Ash class assembly. We really enjoyed sharing all of
our work with you. We worked hard to speak clearly and confidently. In Maths we have
been playing games on the computer to practice our rapid recall of number bonds. We
have been looking at recycling in Science and had lots of ideas about what we could
recycle! Please can I remind all parents that we do not bring toys into school (unless it is
for show and tell—see timetable). We have had lots of upset over toys getting lost or
swapped, so please can you ensure that your children do not bring them.
Lisa’s
Kitchen
Monday 2nd November
Cheese & Tomato Pasta
Syrup Sponge & Custard
Tuesday 3rd November
Meatloaf
Raspberry Bun
Wednesday 4th November
Meat & Potato Pie
Chocolate Mandarin
Sponge
Thursday 5th November
Chicken Korma
Toffee Apple Cake &
Custard
Friday 6th November
Battered Fish
Fruit Salad
Monday 19th October Fish Fingers
Jam Roly Poly & Custard
Tuesday 20th October Pasta Bolognaise
Flapjack
Wednesday 21st October
Chicken Pie
Arctic Roll & Peaches
Thursday 22nd October Beef Hot Pot
Biscuit, Cheese & Grapes
Friday 23rd October
Sausage, Potato & Beans
Halloween Biscuits
PTA Update and Forthcoming Party
Sally, Carolyn and myself would like to say a big hello to you all! We are
looking forward to some exciting times ahead with you all in the coming
school year. As always, we welcome any fundraising ideas from you and
volunteers are always welcomed with enthusiasm!
After our first informal meeting on Friday we have a few ideas that we
would like to share with you, the first being an Autumn fancy dress
party. This will be held in school on Friday 23rd October 3.30pm til
6 pm. Please see details on posters around school.
We are also asking for donations of any magazines, as current as possible,
that you have finished with (these can be adults or children's) We aim to
leave these in reception where you may purchase one for £1.50, a great
way to catch up on the latest celebrity gossip, gardening or children's
programmes at a much reduced price!
Finally, any jam jars that you may have, please bring them in! We have
many uses for them and donations throughout the year are appreciated.
Many thanks in advance, Claire Gautam
This is the main choice—there is
a vegetarian option available
every day (as per menus
sent at the start of term)
Football Report
Joey, Lewis, George, Jonny, Thomas, Alfie, Dylan, Corey, Neive and Kitty
all played in a Y3/4 football tournament at Sandylands last Friday. The
first match was 5 nil to us, then the 2nd match was 1 nil to them, 3rd
match was 3 nil to us, 4th match was 4 nil to them and then the 5th
match was 3 nil to us. Overall we came 4th . We were really proud of our
efforts. By Joey Driscoll
Can you Help?
World Prematurity Day is observed on the 17th November to raise
awareness of pre term birth and the care of premature babies world-
wide. Approximately 15 million babies are born prematurely every year, 1
in 10 around the world.
I volunteer on the neo natal unit at Bradford Royal Infirmary on behalf of
Bliss (Bliss.org.uk) and every year on World Prematurity Day we give gifts to
everyone currently spending time on the unit. This includes purple knitted
hats, one for each child. If any of our parents, grandparents or other
family members are a dab hand at knitting and would like to help out I
would be most grateful! I will need the hats for the first week in November
ideally (they must be purple!). If you need a pattern, please visit http://
www.fiberfluxblog.com/2011/02/free-pattern.html?m=1. Thank you.
Claire Gautam
Parking – Collection
Be aware that it is VERY busy at drop off and collection times. Please
consider parking at the village hall and walking up to school.
Assemblies
Next week: Thursday 22nd October it is Willow class assembly at 9am.
Friday 23rd October – achievement assembly, pupils are invited to bring
in something to show and speak about that they have achieved outside
school.
Oak and Willow class had been challenged to write a short story about
space on the back of a postcard. Amber Dobson won 2 tickets to go to
Settle Stories to see Tales from Cosmos—a story that was set in 1910
about a man shot down 9 suns so that we only had un in the whole wide
world. It was great.
Garg
rave C
of E
Prim
ary
School
Thurs
day 1
5th
Octo
ber
2015
Gargrave CE (VC) Primary School, Neville
Road, Gargrave, BD23 3RE
Tel: 01756 749433 Fax: 01756 749463
Email: admin@gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk
Website: www.gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk
See overleaf for
Holly Eyles (super reading)
Lola Dobson (excellent behaviour)
Ayaan Ali (knowing space facts—confident)
Samuel Blackwell (fantastic number task homework)
Lars Keyworth (perseverance with his can work)
Daisy Hill (working hard during paired reading)
Emma Hargraves and Megan Webb (for kindness towards other children)
Ollie Metcalfe (not giving up with his tricky work)
Zara Pratt (expressive brainbuilder work)
Every Child Counts: Every Child Contributes Issue 6
Harry Dodgson
Skipping For Schools—Wednesday 21st October
We have invited Sports Skipping for Schools to host an all day skipping coaching
session where our children will have the opportunity to learn a range of skipping
skills. Skipping on a regular basis will help improve general levels of fitness and,
along with the different skipping skills and challenges taught during the day,
children will gain new found confidence in their own physical abilities. Parents are
invited to attend the presentation at the end of the day ay 2.50pm. Ropes will
also be available to buy on the day only at a cost of £4.00 each.
White Ribbons
Vacancy—Midday Supervisor
We are looking for a fun person who can work alongside the lunchtime staff to
ensure a safe, happy and active lunchtime. The person will be fully supported by
the other members of staff—5 hrs per week, working everyday 12.00pm – 1.00pm
Term Time Only. Closing date for applications ~ Friday 6th November 2015. The job
is advertised on the NYCC website or you can obtain an application pack from
school.
Vacancy—Kitchen Assistant
We have a vacancy for a general kitchen assistant to cover long term maternity
leave. It is for 2 hours per day (11.30am-1.30pm). To apply or ask any further
questions, please contact Vivienne Sadler on 07779788585.
Parents evening
Thanks to every parent for attending to discuss the learning of your child. Feed-
back from parents included requests for a maths calculations evening and a
meeting about assessment without levels. We shall arrange both for after half
term, dates to follow. Parents of pupils in years 2 and 6 were given copies of the
criteria for a child to be awarded ‘national standard’. There are higher expecta-
tions on the pupils in all areas of the curriculum. We also had out sample test ma-
terials for both these year groups, these are available on-line – just search for sam-
ple national tests. In the spring term we shall give you more details of the tests and
the teacher assessment.
Clubs
Apologies as a few parents thought that the clubs were on this week, but they
weren’t because of parents’ evenings. They are on next week.
Oak Class
We have had a report of head lice, please check your child's hair and treat. Also
could you bring in an old shirt for the children to wear when they are doing art.
APPLE This week in Apple class we have focused on
Phonics and Maths activities. In our Phonics sessions
we have covered c, ck, and e. The children have
read words and phrases and draw pictures. In
Maths we have worked on weight and counting
and comparing different sets of objects. Thank you
for coming to our parent consultation evenings and we hope you found them useful.
OAK This week Oak class have been working really hard on their grammar and have been
coming up with some fantastic adverbs and adjectives to make sentences more
interesting. We have also focused on using some tricky punctuation; using colons, semi-
colons, bullet points and brackets. We really enjoyed our trip to Ilkley Literary Festival to
listen to Steve Cole talk. He gave the class lots of great ideas for their writing. In maths
we have been thinking about multiples and factors and learning how to recognise a
prime number.
WILLOW
We have been working hard this week on our
place value skills and accuracy when working
with money. Some of us have been ‘purchasing’
sports cars at Willow Class garage and working
out how much we can save. We have also been
developing skills in newspaper writing and using
peer marking to check we have all used
our Top Tips effectively.
BEECH We are really enjoying our work on measuring length this week.
Here are Monty and Minny measuring their playdough ‘snakes’
with their bead strings. We have continued to look at non-fiction
books in literacy and have been labelling features of a fire engine
and writing facts about fire engines and fire fighters. We watched
a very exciting video clip of a fire being put out.
ASH Thank you to everyone that came to Ash class assembly. We really enjoyed sharing all of
our work with you. We worked hard to speak clearly and confidently. In Maths we have
been playing games on the computer to practice our rapid recall of number bonds. We
have been looking at recycling in Science and had lots of ideas about what we could
recycle! Please can I remind all parents that we do not bring toys into school (unless it is
for show and tell—see timetable). We have had lots of upset over toys getting lost or
swapped, so please can you ensure that your children do not bring them.
Lisa’s
Kitchen
Monday 2nd November
Cheese & Tomato Pasta
Syrup Sponge & Custard
Tuesday 3rd November
Meatloaf
Raspberry Bun
Wednesday 4th November
Meat & Potato Pie
Chocolate Mandarin
Sponge
Thursday 5th November
Chicken Korma
Toffee Apple Cake &
Custard
Friday 6th November
Battered Fish
Fruit Salad
Monday 19th October Fish Fingers
Jam Roly Poly & Custard
Tuesday 20th October Pasta Bolognaise
Flapjack
Wednesday 21st October
Chicken Pie
Arctic Roll & Peaches
Thursday 22nd October Beef Hot Pot
Biscuit, Cheese & Grapes
Friday 23rd October
Sausage, Potato & Beans
Halloween Biscuits
PTA Update and Forthcoming Party
Sally, Carolyn and myself would like to say a big hello to you all! We are
looking forward to some exciting times ahead with you all in the coming
school year. As always, we welcome any fundraising ideas from you and
volunteers are always welcomed with enthusiasm!
After our first informal meeting on Friday we have a few ideas that we
would like to share with you, the first being an Autumn fancy dress
party. This will be held in school on Friday 23rd October 3.30pm til
6 pm. Please see details on posters around school.
We are also asking for donations of any magazines, as current as possible,
that you have finished with (these can be adults or children's) We aim to
leave these in reception where you may purchase one for £1.50, a great
way to catch up on the latest celebrity gossip, gardening or children's
programmes at a much reduced price!
Finally, any jam jars that you may have, please bring them in! We have
many uses for them and donations throughout the year are appreciated.
Many thanks in advance, Claire Gautam
This is the main choice—there is
a vegetarian option available
every day (as per menus
sent at the start of term)
Football Report
Joey, Lewis, George, Jonny, Thomas, Alfie, Dylan, Corey, Neive and Kitty
all played in a Y3/4 football tournament at Sandylands last Friday. The
first match was 5 nil to us, then the 2nd match was 1 nil to them, 3rd
match was 3 nil to us, 4th match was 4 nil to them and then the 5th
match was 3 nil to us. Overall we came 4th . We were really proud of our
efforts. By Joey Driscoll
Can you Help?
World Prematurity Day is observed on the 17th November to raise
awareness of pre term birth and the care of premature babies world-
wide. Approximately 15 million babies are born prematurely every year, 1
in 10 around the world.
I volunteer on the neo natal unit at Bradford Royal Infirmary on behalf of
Bliss (Bliss.org.uk) and every year on World Prematurity Day we give gifts to
everyone currently spending time on the unit. This includes purple knitted
hats, one for each child. If any of our parents, grandparents or other
family members are a dab hand at knitting and would like to help out I
would be most grateful! I will need the hats for the first week in November
ideally (they must be purple!). If you need a pattern, please visit http://
www.fiberfluxblog.com/2011/02/free-pattern.html?m=1. Thank you.
Claire Gautam
Parking – Collection
Be aware that it is VERY busy at drop off and collection times. Please
consider parking at the village hall and walking up to school.
Assemblies
Next week: Thursday 22nd October it is Willow class assembly at 9am.
Friday 23rd October – achievement assembly, pupils are invited to bring
in something to show and speak about that they have achieved outside
school.
Oak and Willow class had been challenged to write a short story about
space on the back of a postcard. Amber Dobson won 2 tickets to go to
Settle Stories to see Tales from Cosmos—a story that was set in 1910
about a man shot down 9 suns so that we only had un in the whole wide
world. It was great.
Garg
rave C
of E
Prim
ary
School
Thurs
day 1
5th
Octo
ber
2015
Gargrave CE (VC) Primary School, Neville
Road, Gargrave, BD23 3RE
Tel: 01756 749433 Fax: 01756 749463
Email: admin@gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk
Website: www.gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk
See overleaf for
Holly Eyles (super reading)
Lola Dobson (excellent behaviour)
Ayaan Ali (knowing space facts—confident)
Samuel Blackwell (fantastic number task homework)
Lars Keyworth (perseverance with his can work)
Daisy Hill (working hard during paired reading)
Emma Hargraves and Megan Webb (for kindness towards other children)
Ollie Metcalfe (not giving up with his tricky work)
Zara Pratt (expressive brainbuilder work)
Every Child Counts: Every Child Contributes Issue 6
Matilda Alford
Skipping For Schools—Wednesday 21st October
We have invited Sports Skipping for Schools to host an all day skipping coaching
session where our children will have the opportunity to learn a range of skipping
skills. Skipping on a regular basis will help improve general levels of fitness and,
along with the different skipping skills and challenges taught during the day,
children will gain new found confidence in their own physical abilities. Parents are
invited to attend the presentation at the end of the day ay 2.50pm. Ropes will
also be available to buy on the day only at a cost of £4.00 each.
White Ribbons
Vacancy—Midday Supervisor
We are looking for a fun person who can work alongside the lunchtime staff to
ensure a safe, happy and active lunchtime. The person will be fully supported by
the other members of staff—5 hrs per week, working everyday 12.00pm – 1.00pm
Term Time Only. Closing date for applications ~ Friday 6th November 2015. The job
is advertised on the NYCC website or you can obtain an application pack from
school.
Vacancy—Kitchen Assistant
We have a vacancy for a general kitchen assistant to cover long term maternity
leave. It is for 2 hours per day (11.30am-1.30pm). To apply or ask any further
questions, please contact Vivienne Sadler on 07779788585.
Parents evening
Thanks to every parent for attending to discuss the learning of your child. Feed-
back from parents included requests for a maths calculations evening and a
meeting about assessment without levels. We shall arrange both for after half
term, dates to follow. Parents of pupils in years 2 and 6 were given copies of the
criteria for a child to be awarded ‘national standard’. There are higher expecta-
tions on the pupils in all areas of the curriculum. We also had out sample test ma-
terials for both these year groups, these are available on-line – just search for sam-
ple national tests. In the spring term we shall give you more details of the tests and
the teacher assessment.
Clubs
Apologies as a few parents thought that the clubs were on this week, but they
weren’t because of parents’ evenings. They are on next week.
Oak Class
We have had a report of head lice, please check your child's hair and treat. Also
could you bring in an old shirt for the children to wear when they are doing art.
APPLE This week in Apple class we have focused on
Phonics and Maths activities. In our Phonics sessions
we have covered c, ck, and e. The children have
read words and phrases and draw pictures. In
Maths we have worked on weight and counting
and comparing different sets of objects. Thank you
for coming to our parent consultation evenings and we hope you found them useful.
OAK This week Oak class have been working really hard on their grammar and have been
coming up with some fantastic adverbs and adjectives to make sentences more
interesting. We have also focused on using some tricky punctuation; using colons, semi-
colons, bullet points and brackets. We really enjoyed our trip to Ilkley Literary Festival to
listen to Steve Cole talk. He gave the class lots of great ideas for their writing. In maths
we have been thinking about multiples and factors and learning how to recognise a
prime number.
WILLOW
We have been working hard this week on our
place value skills and accuracy when working
with money. Some of us have been ‘purchasing’
sports cars at Willow Class garage and working
out how much we can save. We have also been
developing skills in newspaper writing and using
peer marking to check we have all used
our Top Tips effectively.
BEECH We are really enjoying our work on measuring length this week.
Here are Monty and Minny measuring their playdough ‘snakes’
with their bead strings. We have continued to look at non-fiction
books in literacy and have been labelling features of a fire engine
and writing facts about fire engines and fire fighters. We watched
a very exciting video clip of a fire being put out.
ASH Thank you to everyone that came to Ash class assembly. We really enjoyed sharing all of
our work with you. We worked hard to speak clearly and confidently. In Maths we have
been playing games on the computer to practice our rapid recall of number bonds. We
have been looking at recycling in Science and had lots of ideas about what we could
recycle! Please can I remind all parents that we do not bring toys into school (unless it is
for show and tell—see timetable). We have had lots of upset over toys getting lost or
swapped, so please can you ensure that your children do not bring them.
Lisa’s
Kitchen
Monday 2nd November
Cheese & Tomato Pasta
Syrup Sponge & Custard
Tuesday 3rd November
Meatloaf
Raspberry Bun
Wednesday 4th November
Meat & Potato Pie
Chocolate Mandarin
Sponge
Thursday 5th November
Chicken Korma
Toffee Apple Cake &
Custard
Friday 6th November
Battered Fish
Fruit Salad
Monday 19th October Fish Fingers
Jam Roly Poly & Custard
Tuesday 20th October Pasta Bolognaise
Flapjack
Wednesday 21st October
Chicken Pie
Arctic Roll & Peaches
Thursday 22nd October Beef Hot Pot
Biscuit, Cheese & Grapes
Friday 23rd October
Sausage, Potato & Beans
Halloween Biscuits
PTA Update and Forthcoming Party
Sally, Carolyn and myself would like to say a big hello to you all! We are
looking forward to some exciting times ahead with you all in the coming
school year. As always, we welcome any fundraising ideas from you and
volunteers are always welcomed with enthusiasm!
After our first informal meeting on Friday we have a few ideas that we
would like to share with you, the first being an Autumn fancy dress
party. This will be held in school on Friday 23rd October 3.30pm til
6 pm. Please see details on posters around school.
We are also asking for donations of any magazines, as current as possible,
that you have finished with (these can be adults or children's) We aim to
leave these in reception where you may purchase one for £1.50, a great
way to catch up on the latest celebrity gossip, gardening or children's
programmes at a much reduced price!
Finally, any jam jars that you may have, please bring them in! We have
many uses for them and donations throughout the year are appreciated.
Many thanks in advance, Claire Gautam
This is the main choice—there is
a vegetarian option available
every day (as per menus
sent at the start of term)
Football Report
Joey, Lewis, George, Jonny, Thomas, Alfie, Dylan, Corey, Neive and Kitty
all played in a Y3/4 football tournament at Sandylands last Friday. The
first match was 5 nil to us, then the 2nd match was 1 nil to them, 3rd
match was 3 nil to us, 4th match was 4 nil to them and then the 5th
match was 3 nil to us. Overall we came 4th . We were really proud of our
efforts. By Joey Driscoll
Can you Help?
World Prematurity Day is observed on the 17th November to raise
awareness of pre term birth and the care of premature babies world-
wide. Approximately 15 million babies are born prematurely every year, 1
in 10 around the world.
I volunteer on the neo natal unit at Bradford Royal Infirmary on behalf of
Bliss (Bliss.org.uk) and every year on World Prematurity Day we give gifts to
everyone currently spending time on the unit. This includes purple knitted
hats, one for each child. If any of our parents, grandparents or other
family members are a dab hand at knitting and would like to help out I
would be most grateful! I will need the hats for the first week in November
ideally (they must be purple!). If you need a pattern, please visit http://
www.fiberfluxblog.com/2011/02/free-pattern.html?m=1. Thank you.
Claire Gautam
Parking – Collection
Be aware that it is VERY busy at drop off and collection times. Please
consider parking at the village hall and walking up to school.
Assemblies
Next week: Thursday 22nd October it is Willow class assembly at 9am.
Friday 23rd October – achievement assembly, pupils are invited to bring
in something to show and speak about that they have achieved outside
school.
Oak and Willow class had been challenged to write a short story about
space on the back of a postcard. Amber Dobson won 2 tickets to go to
Settle Stories to see Tales from Cosmos—a story that was set in 1910
about a man shot down 9 suns so that we only had un in the whole wide
world. It was great.
Garg
rave C
of E
Prim
ary
School
Thurs
day 1
5th
Octo
ber
2015
Gargrave CE (VC) Primary School, Neville
Road, Gargrave, BD23 3RE
Tel: 01756 749433 Fax: 01756 749463
Email: admin@gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk
Website: www.gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk
See overleaf for
Holly Eyles (super reading)
Lola Dobson (excellent behaviour)
Ayaan Ali (knowing space facts—confident)
Samuel Blackwell (fantastic number task homework)
Lars Keyworth (perseverance with his can work)
Daisy Hill (working hard during paired reading)
Emma Hargraves and Megan Webb (for kindness towards other children)
Ollie Metcalfe (not giving up with his tricky work)
Zara Pratt (expressive brainbuilder work)
Every Child Counts: Every Child Contributes Issue 6
Corey & Amy Butterfield
Skipping For Schools—Wednesday 21st October
We have invited Sports Skipping for Schools to host an all day skipping coaching
session where our children will have the opportunity to learn a range of skipping
skills. Skipping on a regular basis will help improve general levels of fitness and,
along with the different skipping skills and challenges taught during the day,
children will gain new found confidence in their own physical abilities. Parents are
invited to attend the presentation at the end of the day ay 2.50pm. Ropes will
also be available to buy on the day only at a cost of £4.00 each.
White Ribbons
Vacancy—Midday Supervisor
We are looking for a fun person who can work alongside the lunchtime staff to
ensure a safe, happy and active lunchtime. The person will be fully supported by
the other members of staff—5 hrs per week, working everyday 12.00pm – 1.00pm
Term Time Only. Closing date for applications ~ Friday 6th November 2015. The job
is advertised on the NYCC website or you can obtain an application pack from
school.
Vacancy—Kitchen Assistant
We have a vacancy for a general kitchen assistant to cover long term maternity
leave. It is for 2 hours per day (11.30am-1.30pm). To apply or ask any further
questions, please contact Vivienne Sadler on 07779788585.
Parents evening
Thanks to every parent for attending to discuss the learning of your child. Feed-
back from parents included requests for a maths calculations evening and a
meeting about assessment without levels. We shall arrange both for after half
term, dates to follow. Parents of pupils in years 2 and 6 were given copies of the
criteria for a child to be awarded ‘national standard’. There are higher expecta-
tions on the pupils in all areas of the curriculum. We also had out sample test ma-
terials for both these year groups, these are available on-line – just search for sam-
ple national tests. In the spring term we shall give you more details of the tests and
the teacher assessment.
Clubs
Apologies as a few parents thought that the clubs were on this week, but they
weren’t because of parents’ evenings. They are on next week.
Oak Class
We have had a report of head lice, please check your child's hair and treat. Also
could you bring in an old shirt for the children to wear when they are doing art.
APPLE This week in Apple class we have focused on
Phonics and Maths activities. In our Phonics sessions
we have covered c, ck, and e. The children have
read words and phrases and draw pictures. In
Maths we have worked on weight and counting
and comparing different sets of objects. Thank you
for coming to our parent consultation evenings and we hope you found them useful.
OAK This week Oak class have been working really hard on their grammar and have been
coming up with some fantastic adverbs and adjectives to make sentences more
interesting. We have also focused on using some tricky punctuation; using colons, semi-
colons, bullet points and brackets. We really enjoyed our trip to Ilkley Literary Festival to
listen to Steve Cole talk. He gave the class lots of great ideas for their writing. In maths
we have been thinking about multiples and factors and learning how to recognise a
prime number.
WILLOW
We have been working hard this week on our
place value skills and accuracy when working
with money. Some of us have been ‘purchasing’
sports cars at Willow Class garage and working
out how much we can save. We have also been
developing skills in newspaper writing and using
peer marking to check we have all used
our Top Tips effectively.
BEECH We are really enjoying our work on measuring length this week.
Here are Monty and Minny measuring their playdough ‘snakes’
with their bead strings. We have continued to look at non-fiction
books in literacy and have been labelling features of a fire engine
and writing facts about fire engines and fire fighters. We watched
a very exciting video clip of a fire being put out.
ASH Thank you to everyone that came to Ash class assembly. We really enjoyed sharing all of
our work with you. We worked hard to speak clearly and confidently. In Maths we have
been playing games on the computer to practice our rapid recall of number bonds. We
have been looking at recycling in Science and had lots of ideas about what we could
recycle! Please can I remind all parents that we do not bring toys into school (unless it is
for show and tell—see timetable). We have had lots of upset over toys getting lost or
swapped, so please can you ensure that your children do not bring them.
Lisa’s
Kitchen
Monday 2nd November
Cheese & Tomato Pasta
Syrup Sponge & Custard
Tuesday 3rd November
Meatloaf
Raspberry Bun
Wednesday 4th November
Meat & Potato Pie
Chocolate Mandarin
Sponge
Thursday 5th November
Chicken Korma
Toffee Apple Cake &
Custard
Friday 6th November
Battered Fish
Fruit Salad
Monday 19th October Fish Fingers
Jam Roly Poly & Custard
Tuesday 20th October Pasta Bolognaise
Flapjack
Wednesday 21st October
Chicken Pie
Arctic Roll & Peaches
Thursday 22nd October Beef Hot Pot
Biscuit, Cheese & Grapes
Friday 23rd October
Sausage, Potato & Beans
Halloween Biscuits
PTA Update and Forthcoming Party
Sally, Carolyn and myself would like to say a big hello to you all! We are
looking forward to some exciting times ahead with you all in the coming
school year. As always, we welcome any fundraising ideas from you and
volunteers are always welcomed with enthusiasm!
After our first informal meeting on Friday we have a few ideas that we
would like to share with you, the first being an Autumn fancy dress
party. This will be held in school on Friday 23rd October 3.30pm til
6 pm. Please see details on posters around school.
We are also asking for donations of any magazines, as current as possible,
that you have finished with (these can be adults or children's) We aim to
leave these in reception where you may purchase one for £1.50, a great
way to catch up on the latest celebrity gossip, gardening or children's
programmes at a much reduced price!
Finally, any jam jars that you may have, please bring them in! We have
many uses for them and donations throughout the year are appreciated.
Many thanks in advance, Claire Gautam
This is the main choice—there is
a vegetarian option available
every day (as per menus
sent at the start of term)
Football Report
Joey, Lewis, George, Jonny, Thomas, Alfie, Dylan, Corey, Neive and Kitty
all played in a Y3/4 football tournament at Sandylands last Friday. The
first match was 5 nil to us, then the 2nd match was 1 nil to them, 3rd
match was 3 nil to us, 4th match was 4 nil to them and then the 5th
match was 3 nil to us. Overall we came 4th . We were really proud of our
efforts. By Joey Driscoll
Can you Help?
World Prematurity Day is observed on the 17th November to raise
awareness of pre term birth and the care of premature babies world-
wide. Approximately 15 million babies are born prematurely every year, 1
in 10 around the world.
I volunteer on the neo natal unit at Bradford Royal Infirmary on behalf of
Bliss (Bliss.org.uk) and every year on World Prematurity Day we give gifts to
everyone currently spending time on the unit. This includes purple knitted
hats, one for each child. If any of our parents, grandparents or other
family members are a dab hand at knitting and would like to help out I
would be most grateful! I will need the hats for the first week in November
ideally (they must be purple!). If you need a pattern, please visit http://
www.fiberfluxblog.com/2011/02/free-pattern.html?m=1. Thank you.
Claire Gautam
Parking – Collection
Be aware that it is VERY busy at drop off and collection times. Please
consider parking at the village hall and walking up to school.
Assemblies
Next week: Thursday 22nd October it is Willow class assembly at 9am.
Friday 23rd October – achievement assembly, pupils are invited to bring
in something to show and speak about that they have achieved outside
school.
Oak and Willow class had been challenged to write a short story about
space on the back of a postcard. Amber Dobson won 2 tickets to go to
Settle Stories to see Tales from Cosmos—a story that was set in 1910
about a man shot down 9 suns so that we only had un in the whole wide
world. It was great.
Garg
rave C
of E
Prim
ary
School
Thurs
day 1
5th
Octo
ber
2015
Gargrave CE (VC) Primary School, Neville
Road, Gargrave, BD23 3RE
Tel: 01756 749433 Fax: 01756 749463
Email: admin@gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk
Website: www.gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk
See overleaf for
Holly Eyles (super reading)
Lola Dobson (excellent behaviour)
Ayaan Ali (knowing space facts—confident)
Samuel Blackwell (fantastic number task homework)
Lars Keyworth (perseverance with his can work)
Daisy Hill (working hard during paired reading)
Emma Hargraves and Megan Webb (for kindness towards other children)
Ollie Metcalfe (not giving up with his tricky work)
Zara Pratt (expressive brainbuilder work)
Every Child Counts: Every Child Contributes Issue 6
Jack Ellison
Skipping For Schools—Wednesday 21st October
We have invited Sports Skipping for Schools to host an all day skipping coaching
session where our children will have the opportunity to learn a range of skipping
skills. Skipping on a regular basis will help improve general levels of fitness and,
along with the different skipping skills and challenges taught during the day,
children will gain new found confidence in their own physical abilities. Parents are
invited to attend the presentation at the end of the day ay 2.50pm. Ropes will
also be available to buy on the day only at a cost of £4.00 each.
White Ribbons
Vacancy—Midday Supervisor
We are looking for a fun person who can work alongside the lunchtime staff to
ensure a safe, happy and active lunchtime. The person will be fully supported by
the other members of staff—5 hrs per week, working everyday 12.00pm – 1.00pm
Term Time Only. Closing date for applications ~ Friday 6th November 2015. The job
is advertised on the NYCC website or you can obtain an application pack from
school.
Vacancy—Kitchen Assistant
We have a vacancy for a general kitchen assistant to cover long term maternity
leave. It is for 2 hours per day (11.30am-1.30pm). To apply or ask any further
questions, please contact Vivienne Sadler on 07779788585.
Parents evening
Thanks to every parent for attending to discuss the learning of your child. Feed-
back from parents included requests for a maths calculations evening and a
meeting about assessment without levels. We shall arrange both for after half
term, dates to follow. Parents of pupils in years 2 and 6 were given copies of the
criteria for a child to be awarded ‘national standard’. There are higher expecta-
tions on the pupils in all areas of the curriculum. We also had out sample test ma-
terials for both these year groups, these are available on-line – just search for sam-
ple national tests. In the spring term we shall give you more details of the tests and
the teacher assessment.
Clubs
Apologies as a few parents thought that the clubs were on this week, but they
weren’t because of parents’ evenings. They are on next week.
Oak Class
We have had a report of head lice, please check your child's hair and treat. Also
could you bring in an old shirt for the children to wear when they are doing art.
APPLE This week in Apple class we have focused on
Phonics and Maths activities. In our Phonics sessions
we have covered c, ck, and e. The children have
read words and phrases and draw pictures. In
Maths we have worked on weight and counting
and comparing different sets of objects. Thank you
for coming to our parent consultation evenings and we hope you found them useful.
OAK This week Oak class have been working really hard on their grammar and have been
coming up with some fantastic adverbs and adjectives to make sentences more
interesting. We have also focused on using some tricky punctuation; using colons, semi-
colons, bullet points and brackets. We really enjoyed our trip to Ilkley Literary Festival to
listen to Steve Cole talk. He gave the class lots of great ideas for their writing. In maths
we have been thinking about multiples and factors and learning how to recognise a
prime number.
WILLOW
We have been working hard this week on our
place value skills and accuracy when working
with money. Some of us have been ‘purchasing’
sports cars at Willow Class garage and working
out how much we can save. We have also been
developing skills in newspaper writing and using
peer marking to check we have all used
our Top Tips effectively.
BEECH We are really enjoying our work on measuring length this week.
Here are Monty and Minny measuring their playdough ‘snakes’
with their bead strings. We have continued to look at non-fiction
books in literacy and have been labelling features of a fire engine
and writing facts about fire engines and fire fighters. We watched
a very exciting video clip of a fire being put out.
ASH Thank you to everyone that came to Ash class assembly. We really enjoyed sharing all of
our work with you. We worked hard to speak clearly and confidently. In Maths we have
been playing games on the computer to practice our rapid recall of number bonds. We
have been looking at recycling in Science and had lots of ideas about what we could
recycle! Please can I remind all parents that we do not bring toys into school (unless it is
for show and tell—see timetable). We have had lots of upset over toys getting lost or
swapped, so please can you ensure that your children do not bring them.
Lisa’s
Kitchen
Monday 2nd November
Cheese & Tomato Pasta
Syrup Sponge & Custard
Tuesday 3rd November
Meatloaf
Raspberry Bun
Wednesday 4th November
Meat & Potato Pie
Chocolate Mandarin
Sponge
Thursday 5th November
Chicken Korma
Toffee Apple Cake &
Custard
Friday 6th November
Battered Fish
Fruit Salad
Monday 19th October Fish Fingers
Jam Roly Poly & Custard
Tuesday 20th October Pasta Bolognaise
Flapjack
Wednesday 21st October
Chicken Pie
Arctic Roll & Peaches
Thursday 22nd October Beef Hot Pot
Biscuit, Cheese & Grapes
Friday 23rd October
Sausage, Potato & Beans
Halloween Biscuits
PTA Update and Forthcoming Party
Sally, Carolyn and myself would like to say a big hello to you all! We are
looking forward to some exciting times ahead with you all in the coming
school year. As always, we welcome any fundraising ideas from you and
volunteers are always welcomed with enthusiasm!
After our first informal meeting on Friday we have a few ideas that we
would like to share with you, the first being an Autumn fancy dress
party. This will be held in school on Friday 23rd October 3.30pm til
6 pm. Please see details on posters around school.
We are also asking for donations of any magazines, as current as possible,
that you have finished with (these can be adults or children's) We aim to
leave these in reception where you may purchase one for £1.50, a great
way to catch up on the latest celebrity gossip, gardening or children's
programmes at a much reduced price!
Finally, any jam jars that you may have, please bring them in! We have
many uses for them and donations throughout the year are appreciated.
Many thanks in advance, Claire Gautam
This is the main choice—there is
a vegetarian option available
every day (as per menus
sent at the start of term)
Football Report
Joey, Lewis, George, Jonny, Thomas, Alfie, Dylan, Corey, Neive and Kitty
all played in a Y3/4 football tournament at Sandylands last Friday. The
first match was 5 nil to us, then the 2nd match was 1 nil to them, 3rd
match was 3 nil to us, 4th match was 4 nil to them and then the 5th
match was 3 nil to us. Overall we came 4th . We were really proud of our
efforts. By Joey Driscoll
Can you Help?
World Prematurity Day is observed on the 17th November to raise
awareness of pre term birth and the care of premature babies world-
wide. Approximately 15 million babies are born prematurely every year, 1
in 10 around the world.
I volunteer on the neo natal unit at Bradford Royal Infirmary on behalf of
Bliss (Bliss.org.uk) and every year on World Prematurity Day we give gifts to
everyone currently spending time on the unit. This includes purple knitted
hats, one for each child. If any of our parents, grandparents or other
family members are a dab hand at knitting and would like to help out I
would be most grateful! I will need the hats for the first week in November
ideally (they must be purple!). If you need a pattern, please visit http://
www.fiberfluxblog.com/2011/02/free-pattern.html?m=1. Thank you.
Claire Gautam
Parking – Collection
Be aware that it is VERY busy at drop off and collection times. Please
consider parking at the village hall and walking up to school.
Assemblies
Next week: Thursday 22nd October it is Willow class assembly at 9am.
Friday 23rd October – achievement assembly, pupils are invited to bring
in something to show and speak about that they have achieved outside
school.
Oak and Willow class had been challenged to write a short story about
space on the back of a postcard. Amber Dobson won 2 tickets to go to
Settle Stories to see Tales from Cosmos—a story that was set in 1910
about a man shot down 9 suns so that we only had un in the whole wide
world. It was great.
Garg
rave C
of E
Prim
ary
School
Thurs
day 1
5th
Octo
ber
2015
Gargrave CE (VC) Primary School, Neville
Road, Gargrave, BD23 3RE
Tel: 01756 749433 Fax: 01756 749463
Email: admin@gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk
Website: www.gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk
See overleaf for
Holly Eyles (super reading)
Lola Dobson (excellent behaviour)
Ayaan Ali (knowing space facts—confident)
Samuel Blackwell (fantastic number task homework)
Lars Keyworth (perseverance with his can work)
Daisy Hill (working hard during paired reading)
Emma Hargraves and Megan Webb (for kindness towards other children)
Ollie Metcalfe (not giving up with his tricky work)
Zara Pratt (expressive brainbuilder work)
Every Child Counts: Every Child Contributes Issue 6
Dylan Hodgson
Skipping For Schools—Wednesday 21st October
We have invited Sports Skipping for Schools to host an all day skipping coaching
session where our children will have the opportunity to learn a range of skipping
skills. Skipping on a regular basis will help improve general levels of fitness and,
along with the different skipping skills and challenges taught during the day,
children will gain new found confidence in their own physical abilities. Parents are
invited to attend the presentation at the end of the day ay 2.50pm. Ropes will
also be available to buy on the day only at a cost of £4.00 each.
White Ribbons
Vacancy—Midday Supervisor
We are looking for a fun person who can work alongside the lunchtime staff to
ensure a safe, happy and active lunchtime. The person will be fully supported by
the other members of staff—5 hrs per week, working everyday 12.00pm – 1.00pm
Term Time Only. Closing date for applications ~ Friday 6th November 2015. The job
is advertised on the NYCC website or you can obtain an application pack from
school.
Vacancy—Kitchen Assistant
We have a vacancy for a general kitchen assistant to cover long term maternity
leave. It is for 2 hours per day (11.30am-1.30pm). To apply or ask any further
questions, please contact Vivienne Sadler on 07779788585.
Parents evening
Thanks to every parent for attending to discuss the learning of your child. Feed-
back from parents included requests for a maths calculations evening and a
meeting about assessment without levels. We shall arrange both for after half
term, dates to follow. Parents of pupils in years 2 and 6 were given copies of the
criteria for a child to be awarded ‘national standard’. There are higher expecta-
tions on the pupils in all areas of the curriculum. We also had out sample test ma-
terials for both these year groups, these are available on-line – just search for sam-
ple national tests. In the spring term we shall give you more details of the tests and
the teacher assessment.
Clubs
Apologies as a few parents thought that the clubs were on this week, but they
weren’t because of parents’ evenings. They are on next week.
Oak Class
We have had a report of head lice, please check your child's hair and treat. Also
could you bring in an old shirt for the children to wear when they are doing art.
APPLE This week in Apple class we have focused on
Phonics and Maths activities. In our Phonics sessions
we have covered c, ck, and e. The children have
read words and phrases and draw pictures. In
Maths we have worked on weight and counting
and comparing different sets of objects. Thank you
for coming to our parent consultation evenings and we hope you found them useful.
OAK This week Oak class have been working really hard on their grammar and have been
coming up with some fantastic adverbs and adjectives to make sentences more
interesting. We have also focused on using some tricky punctuation; using colons, semi-
colons, bullet points and brackets. We really enjoyed our trip to Ilkley Literary Festival to
listen to Steve Cole talk. He gave the class lots of great ideas for their writing. In maths
we have been thinking about multiples and factors and learning how to recognise a
prime number.
WILLOW
We have been working hard this week on our
place value skills and accuracy when working
with money. Some of us have been ‘purchasing’
sports cars at Willow Class garage and working
out how much we can save. We have also been
developing skills in newspaper writing and using
peer marking to check we have all used
our Top Tips effectively.
BEECH We are really enjoying our work on measuring length this week.
Here are Monty and Minny measuring their playdough ‘snakes’
with their bead strings. We have continued to look at non-fiction
books in literacy and have been labelling features of a fire engine
and writing facts about fire engines and fire fighters. We watched
a very exciting video clip of a fire being put out.
ASH Thank you to everyone that came to Ash class assembly. We really enjoyed sharing all of
our work with you. We worked hard to speak clearly and confidently. In Maths we have
been playing games on the computer to practice our rapid recall of number bonds. We
have been looking at recycling in Science and had lots of ideas about what we could
recycle! Please can I remind all parents that we do not bring toys into school (unless it is
for show and tell—see timetable). We have had lots of upset over toys getting lost or
swapped, so please can you ensure that your children do not bring them.
Lisa’s
Kitchen
Monday 2nd November
Cheese & Tomato Pasta
Syrup Sponge & Custard
Tuesday 3rd November
Meatloaf
Raspberry Bun
Wednesday 4th November
Meat & Potato Pie
Chocolate Mandarin
Sponge
Thursday 5th November
Chicken Korma
Toffee Apple Cake &
Custard
Friday 6th November
Battered Fish
Fruit Salad
Monday 19th October Fish Fingers
Jam Roly Poly & Custard
Tuesday 20th October Pasta Bolognaise
Flapjack
Wednesday 21st October
Chicken Pie
Arctic Roll & Peaches
Thursday 22nd October Beef Hot Pot
Biscuit, Cheese & Grapes
Friday 23rd October
Sausage, Potato & Beans
Halloween Biscuits
PTA Update and Forthcoming Party
Sally, Carolyn and myself would like to say a big hello to you all! We are
looking forward to some exciting times ahead with you all in the coming
school year. As always, we welcome any fundraising ideas from you and
volunteers are always welcomed with enthusiasm!
After our first informal meeting on Friday we have a few ideas that we
would like to share with you, the first being an Autumn fancy dress
party. This will be held in school on Friday 23rd October 3.30pm til
6 pm. Please see details on posters around school.
We are also asking for donations of any magazines, as current as possible,
that you have finished with (these can be adults or children's) We aim to
leave these in reception where you may purchase one for £1.50, a great
way to catch up on the latest celebrity gossip, gardening or children's
programmes at a much reduced price!
Finally, any jam jars that you may have, please bring them in! We have
many uses for them and donations throughout the year are appreciated.
Many thanks in advance, Claire Gautam
This is the main choice—there is
a vegetarian option available
every day (as per menus
sent at the start of term)
Football Report
Joey, Lewis, George, Jonny, Thomas, Alfie, Dylan, Corey, Neive and Kitty
all played in a Y3/4 football tournament at Sandylands last Friday. The
first match was 5 nil to us, then the 2nd match was 1 nil to them, 3rd
match was 3 nil to us, 4th match was 4 nil to them and then the 5th
match was 3 nil to us. Overall we came 4th . We were really proud of our
efforts. By Joey Driscoll
Can you Help?
World Prematurity Day is observed on the 17th November to raise
awareness of pre term birth and the care of premature babies world-
wide. Approximately 15 million babies are born prematurely every year, 1
in 10 around the world.
I volunteer on the neo natal unit at Bradford Royal Infirmary on behalf of
Bliss (Bliss.org.uk) and every year on World Prematurity Day we give gifts to
everyone currently spending time on the unit. This includes purple knitted
hats, one for each child. If any of our parents, grandparents or other
family members are a dab hand at knitting and would like to help out I
would be most grateful! I will need the hats for the first week in November
ideally (they must be purple!). If you need a pattern, please visit http://
www.fiberfluxblog.com/2011/02/free-pattern.html?m=1. Thank you.
Claire Gautam
Parking – Collection
Be aware that it is VERY busy at drop off and collection times. Please
consider parking at the village hall and walking up to school.
Assemblies
Next week: Thursday 22nd October it is Willow class assembly at 9am.
Friday 23rd October – achievement assembly, pupils are invited to bring
in something to show and speak about that they have achieved outside
school.
Oak and Willow class had been challenged to write a short story about
space on the back of a postcard. Amber Dobson won 2 tickets to go to
Settle Stories to see Tales from Cosmos—a story that was set in 1910
about a man shot down 9 suns so that we only had un in the whole wide
world. It was great.
Garg
rave C
of E
Prim
ary
School
Thurs
day 1
5th
Octo
ber
2015
Gargrave CE (VC) Primary School, Neville
Road, Gargrave, BD23 3RE
Tel: 01756 749433 Fax: 01756 749463
Email: admin@gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk
Website: www.gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk
See overleaf for
Holly Eyles (super reading)
Lola Dobson (excellent behaviour)
Ayaan Ali (knowing space facts—confident)
Samuel Blackwell (fantastic number task homework)
Lars Keyworth (perseverance with his can work)
Daisy Hill (working hard during paired reading)
Emma Hargraves and Megan Webb (for kindness towards other children)
Ollie Metcalfe (not giving up with his tricky work)
Zara Pratt (expressive brainbuilder work)
Every Child Counts: Every Child Contributes Issue 6
Euan Wood
Skipping For Schools—Wednesday 21st October
We have invited Sports Skipping for Schools to host an all day skipping coaching
session where our children will have the opportunity to learn a range of skipping
skills. Skipping on a regular basis will help improve general levels of fitness and,
along with the different skipping skills and challenges taught during the day,
children will gain new found confidence in their own physical abilities. Parents are
invited to attend the presentation at the end of the day ay 2.50pm. Ropes will
also be available to buy on the day only at a cost of £4.00 each.
White Ribbons
Vacancy—Midday Supervisor
We are looking for a fun person who can work alongside the lunchtime staff to
ensure a safe, happy and active lunchtime. The person will be fully supported by
the other members of staff—5 hrs per week, working everyday 12.00pm – 1.00pm
Term Time Only. Closing date for applications ~ Friday 6th November 2015. The job
is advertised on the NYCC website or you can obtain an application pack from
school.
Vacancy—Kitchen Assistant
We have a vacancy for a general kitchen assistant to cover long term maternity
leave. It is for 2 hours per day (11.30am-1.30pm). To apply or ask any further
questions, please contact Vivienne Sadler on 07779788585.
Parents evening
Thanks to every parent for attending to discuss the learning of your child. Feed-
back from parents included requests for a maths calculations evening and a
meeting about assessment without levels. We shall arrange both for after half
term, dates to follow. Parents of pupils in years 2 and 6 were given copies of the
criteria for a child to be awarded ‘national standard’. There are higher expecta-
tions on the pupils in all areas of the curriculum. We also had out sample test ma-
terials for both these year groups, these are available on-line – just search for sam-
ple national tests. In the spring term we shall give you more details of the tests and
the teacher assessment.
Clubs
Apologies as a few parents thought that the clubs were on this week, but they
weren’t because of parents’ evenings. They are on next week.
Oak Class
We have had a report of head lice, please check your child's hair and treat. Also
could you bring in an old shirt for the children to wear when they are doing art.
APPLE This week in Apple class we have focused on
Phonics and Maths activities. In our Phonics sessions
we have covered c, ck, and e. The children have
read words and phrases and draw pictures. In
Maths we have worked on weight and counting
and comparing different sets of objects. Thank you
for coming to our parent consultation evenings and we hope you found them useful.
OAK This week Oak class have been working really hard on their grammar and have been
coming up with some fantastic adverbs and adjectives to make sentences more
interesting. We have also focused on using some tricky punctuation; using colons, semi-
colons, bullet points and brackets. We really enjoyed our trip to Ilkley Literary Festival to
listen to Steve Cole talk. He gave the class lots of great ideas for their writing. In maths
we have been thinking about multiples and factors and learning how to recognise a
prime number.
WILLOW
We have been working hard this week on our
place value skills and accuracy when working
with money. Some of us have been ‘purchasing’
sports cars at Willow Class garage and working
out how much we can save. We have also been
developing skills in newspaper writing and using
peer marking to check we have all used
our Top Tips effectively.
BEECH We are really enjoying our work on measuring length this week.
Here are Monty and Minny measuring their playdough ‘snakes’
with their bead strings. We have continued to look at non-fiction
books in literacy and have been labelling features of a fire engine
and writing facts about fire engines and fire fighters. We watched
a very exciting video clip of a fire being put out.
ASH Thank you to everyone that came to Ash class assembly. We really enjoyed sharing all of
our work with you. We worked hard to speak clearly and confidently. In Maths we have
been playing games on the computer to practice our rapid recall of number bonds. We
have been looking at recycling in Science and had lots of ideas about what we could
recycle! Please can I remind all parents that we do not bring toys into school (unless it is
for show and tell—see timetable). We have had lots of upset over toys getting lost or
swapped, so please can you ensure that your children do not bring them.
Lisa’s
Kitchen
Monday 2nd November
Cheese & Tomato Pasta
Syrup Sponge & Custard
Tuesday 3rd November
Meatloaf
Raspberry Bun
Wednesday 4th November
Meat & Potato Pie
Chocolate Mandarin
Sponge
Thursday 5th November
Chicken Korma
Toffee Apple Cake &
Custard
Friday 6th November
Battered Fish
Fruit Salad
Monday 19th October Fish Fingers
Jam Roly Poly & Custard
Tuesday 20th October Pasta Bolognaise
Flapjack
Wednesday 21st October
Chicken Pie
Arctic Roll & Peaches
Thursday 22nd October Beef Hot Pot
Biscuit, Cheese & Grapes
Friday 23rd October
Sausage, Potato & Beans
Halloween Biscuits
PTA Update and Forthcoming Party
Sally, Carolyn and myself would like to say a big hello to you all! We are
looking forward to some exciting times ahead with you all in the coming
school year. As always, we welcome any fundraising ideas from you and
volunteers are always welcomed with enthusiasm!
After our first informal meeting on Friday we have a few ideas that we
would like to share with you, the first being an Autumn fancy dress
party. This will be held in school on Friday 23rd October 3.30pm til
6 pm. Please see details on posters around school.
We are also asking for donations of any magazines, as current as possible,
that you have finished with (these can be adults or children's) We aim to
leave these in reception where you may purchase one for £1.50, a great
way to catch up on the latest celebrity gossip, gardening or children's
programmes at a much reduced price!
Finally, any jam jars that you may have, please bring them in! We have
many uses for them and donations throughout the year are appreciated.
Many thanks in advance, Claire Gautam
This is the main choice—there is
a vegetarian option available
every day (as per menus
sent at the start of term)
Football Report
Joey, Lewis, George, Jonny, Thomas, Alfie, Dylan, Corey, Neive and Kitty
all played in a Y3/4 football tournament at Sandylands last Friday. The
first match was 5 nil to us, then the 2nd match was 1 nil to them, 3rd
match was 3 nil to us, 4th match was 4 nil to them and then the 5th
match was 3 nil to us. Overall we came 4th . We were really proud of our
efforts. By Joey Driscoll
Can you Help?
World Prematurity Day is observed on the 17th November to raise
awareness of pre term birth and the care of premature babies world-
wide. Approximately 15 million babies are born prematurely every year, 1
in 10 around the world.
I volunteer on the neo natal unit at Bradford Royal Infirmary on behalf of
Bliss (Bliss.org.uk) and every year on World Prematurity Day we give gifts to
everyone currently spending time on the unit. This includes purple knitted
hats, one for each child. If any of our parents, grandparents or other
family members are a dab hand at knitting and would like to help out I
would be most grateful! I will need the hats for the first week in November
ideally (they must be purple!). If you need a pattern, please visit http://
www.fiberfluxblog.com/2011/02/free-pattern.html?m=1. Thank you.
Claire Gautam
Parking – Collection
Be aware that it is VERY busy at drop off and collection times. Please
consider parking at the village hall and walking up to school.
Assemblies
Next week: Thursday 22nd October it is Willow class assembly at 9am.
Friday 23rd October – achievement assembly, pupils are invited to bring
in something to show and speak about that they have achieved outside
school.
Oak and Willow class had been challenged to write a short story about
space on the back of a postcard. Amber Dobson won 2 tickets to go to
Settle Stories to see Tales from Cosmos—a story that was set in 1910
about a man shot down 9 suns so that we only had un in the whole wide
world. It was great.
Garg
rave C
of E
Prim
ary
School
Thurs
day 1
5th
Octo
ber
2015
Gargrave CE (VC) Primary School, Neville
Road, Gargrave, BD23 3RE
Tel: 01756 749433 Fax: 01756 749463
Email: admin@gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk
Website: www.gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk
See overleaf for
Holly Eyles (super reading)
Lola Dobson (excellent behaviour)
Ayaan Ali (knowing space facts—confident)
Samuel Blackwell (fantastic number task homework)
Lars Keyworth (perseverance with his can work)
Daisy Hill (working hard during paired reading)
Emma Hargraves and Megan Webb (for kindness towards other children)
Ollie Metcalfe (not giving up with his tricky work)
Zara Pratt (expressive brainbuilder work)
Every Child Counts: Every Child Contributes Issue 6
Nicholas Stump
Skipping For Schools—Wednesday 21st October
We have invited Sports Skipping for Schools to host an all day skipping coaching
session where our children will have the opportunity to learn a range of skipping
skills. Skipping on a regular basis will help improve general levels of fitness and,
along with the different skipping skills and challenges taught during the day,
children will gain new found confidence in their own physical abilities. Parents are
invited to attend the presentation at the end of the day ay 2.50pm. Ropes will
also be available to buy on the day only at a cost of £4.00 each.
White Ribbons
Vacancy—Midday Supervisor
We are looking for a fun person who can work alongside the lunchtime staff to
ensure a safe, happy and active lunchtime. The person will be fully supported by
the other members of staff—5 hrs per week, working everyday 12.00pm – 1.00pm
Term Time Only. Closing date for applications ~ Friday 6th November 2015. The job
is advertised on the NYCC website or you can obtain an application pack from
school.
Vacancy—Kitchen Assistant
We have a vacancy for a general kitchen assistant to cover long term maternity
leave. It is for 2 hours per day (11.30am-1.30pm). To apply or ask any further
questions, please contact Vivienne Sadler on 07779788585.
Parents evening
Thanks to every parent for attending to discuss the learning of your child. Feed-
back from parents included requests for a maths calculations evening and a
meeting about assessment without levels. We shall arrange both for after half
term, dates to follow. Parents of pupils in years 2 and 6 were given copies of the
criteria for a child to be awarded ‘national standard’. There are higher expecta-
tions on the pupils in all areas of the curriculum. We also had out sample test ma-
terials for both these year groups, these are available on-line – just search for sam-
ple national tests. In the spring term we shall give you more details of the tests and
the teacher assessment.
Clubs
Apologies as a few parents thought that the clubs were on this week, but they
weren’t because of parents’ evenings. They are on next week.
Oak Class
We have had a report of head lice, please check your child's hair and treat. Also
could you bring in an old shirt for the children to wear when they are doing art.
APPLE This week in Apple class we have focused on
Phonics and Maths activities. In our Phonics sessions
we have covered c, ck, and e. The children have
read words and phrases and draw pictures. In
Maths we have worked on weight and counting
and comparing different sets of objects. Thank you
for coming to our parent consultation evenings and we hope you found them useful.
OAK This week Oak class have been working really hard on their grammar and have been
coming up with some fantastic adverbs and adjectives to make sentences more
interesting. We have also focused on using some tricky punctuation; using colons, semi-
colons, bullet points and brackets. We really enjoyed our trip to Ilkley Literary Festival to
listen to Steve Cole talk. He gave the class lots of great ideas for their writing. In maths
we have been thinking about multiples and factors and learning how to recognise a
prime number.
WILLOW
We have been working hard this week on our
place value skills and accuracy when working
with money. Some of us have been ‘purchasing’
sports cars at Willow Class garage and working
out how much we can save. We have also been
developing skills in newspaper writing and using
peer marking to check we have all used
our Top Tips effectively.
BEECH We are really enjoying our work on measuring length this week.
Here are Monty and Minny measuring their playdough ‘snakes’
with their bead strings. We have continued to look at non-fiction
books in literacy and have been labelling features of a fire engine
and writing facts about fire engines and fire fighters. We watched
a very exciting video clip of a fire being put out.
ASH Thank you to everyone that came to Ash class assembly. We really enjoyed sharing all of
our work with you. We worked hard to speak clearly and confidently. In Maths we have
been playing games on the computer to practice our rapid recall of number bonds. We
have been looking at recycling in Science and had lots of ideas about what we could
recycle! Please can I remind all parents that we do not bring toys into school (unless it is
for show and tell—see timetable). We have had lots of upset over toys getting lost or
swapped, so please can you ensure that your children do not bring them.
Lisa’s
Kitchen
Monday 2nd November
Cheese & Tomato Pasta
Syrup Sponge & Custard
Tuesday 3rd November
Meatloaf
Raspberry Bun
Wednesday 4th November
Meat & Potato Pie
Chocolate Mandarin
Sponge
Thursday 5th November
Chicken Korma
Toffee Apple Cake &
Custard
Friday 6th November
Battered Fish
Fruit Salad
Monday 19th October Fish Fingers
Jam Roly Poly & Custard
Tuesday 20th October Pasta Bolognaise
Flapjack
Wednesday 21st October
Chicken Pie
Arctic Roll & Peaches
Thursday 22nd October Beef Hot Pot
Biscuit, Cheese & Grapes
Friday 23rd October
Sausage, Potato & Beans
Halloween Biscuits
PTA Update and Forthcoming Party
Sally, Carolyn and myself would like to say a big hello to you all! We are
looking forward to some exciting times ahead with you all in the coming
school year. As always, we welcome any fundraising ideas from you and
volunteers are always welcomed with enthusiasm!
After our first informal meeting on Friday we have a few ideas that we
would like to share with you, the first being an Autumn fancy dress
party. This will be held in school on Friday 23rd October 3.30pm til
6 pm. Please see details on posters around school.
We are also asking for donations of any magazines, as current as possible,
that you have finished with (these can be adults or children's) We aim to
leave these in reception where you may purchase one for £1.50, a great
way to catch up on the latest celebrity gossip, gardening or children's
programmes at a much reduced price!
Finally, any jam jars that you may have, please bring them in! We have
many uses for them and donations throughout the year are appreciated.
Many thanks in advance, Claire Gautam
This is the main choice—there is
a vegetarian option available
every day (as per menus
sent at the start of term)
Football Report
Joey, Lewis, George, Jonny, Thomas, Alfie, Dylan, Corey, Neive and Kitty
all played in a Y3/4 football tournament at Sandylands last Friday. The
first match was 5 nil to us, then the 2nd match was 1 nil to them, 3rd
match was 3 nil to us, 4th match was 4 nil to them and then the 5th
match was 3 nil to us. Overall we came 4th . We were really proud of our
efforts. By Joey Driscoll
Can you Help?
World Prematurity Day is observed on the 17th November to raise
awareness of pre term birth and the care of premature babies world-
wide. Approximately 15 million babies are born prematurely every year, 1
in 10 around the world.
I volunteer on the neo natal unit at Bradford Royal Infirmary on behalf of
Bliss (Bliss.org.uk) and every year on World Prematurity Day we give gifts to
everyone currently spending time on the unit. This includes purple knitted
hats, one for each child. If any of our parents, grandparents or other
family members are a dab hand at knitting and would like to help out I
would be most grateful! I will need the hats for the first week in November
ideally (they must be purple!). If you need a pattern, please visit http://
www.fiberfluxblog.com/2011/02/free-pattern.html?m=1. Thank you.
Claire Gautam
Parking – Collection
Be aware that it is VERY busy at drop off and collection times. Please
consider parking at the village hall and walking up to school.
Assemblies
Next week: Thursday 22nd October it is Willow class assembly at 9am.
Friday 23rd October – achievement assembly, pupils are invited to bring
in something to show and speak about that they have achieved outside
school.
Oak and Willow class had been challenged to write a short story about
space on the back of a postcard. Amber Dobson won 2 tickets to go to
Settle Stories to see Tales from Cosmos—a story that was set in 1910
about a man shot down 9 suns so that we only had un in the whole wide
world. It was great.
Garg
rave C
of E
Prim
ary
School
Thurs
day 1
5th
Octo
ber
2015
Gargrave CE (VC) Primary School, Neville
Road, Gargrave, BD23 3RE
Tel: 01756 749433 Fax: 01756 749463
Email: admin@gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk
Website: www.gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk
See overleaf for
Holly Eyles (super reading)
Lola Dobson (excellent behaviour)
Ayaan Ali (knowing space facts—confident)
Samuel Blackwell (fantastic number task homework)
Lars Keyworth (perseverance with his can work)
Daisy Hill (working hard during paired reading)
Emma Hargraves and Megan Webb (for kindness towards other children)
Ollie Metcalfe (not giving up with his tricky work)
Zara Pratt (expressive brainbuilder work)
Every Child Counts: Every Child Contributes Issue 6
William & Nicholas Walker
Skipping For Schools—Wednesday 21st October
We have invited Sports Skipping for Schools to host an all day skipping coaching
session where our children will have the opportunity to learn a range of skipping
skills. Skipping on a regular basis will help improve general levels of fitness and,
along with the different skipping skills and challenges taught during the day,
children will gain new found confidence in their own physical abilities. Parents are
invited to attend the presentation at the end of the day ay 2.50pm. Ropes will
also be available to buy on the day only at a cost of £4.00 each.
White Ribbons
Vacancy—Midday Supervisor
We are looking for a fun person who can work alongside the lunchtime staff to
ensure a safe, happy and active lunchtime. The person will be fully supported by
the other members of staff—5 hrs per week, working everyday 12.00pm – 1.00pm
Term Time Only. Closing date for applications ~ Friday 6th November 2015. The job
is advertised on the NYCC website or you can obtain an application pack from
school.
Vacancy—Kitchen Assistant
We have a vacancy for a general kitchen assistant to cover long term maternity
leave. It is for 2 hours per day (11.30am-1.30pm). To apply or ask any further
questions, please contact Vivienne Sadler on 07779788585.
Parents evening
Thanks to every parent for attending to discuss the learning of your child. Feed-
back from parents included requests for a maths calculations evening and a
meeting about assessment without levels. We shall arrange both for after half
term, dates to follow. Parents of pupils in years 2 and 6 were given copies of the
criteria for a child to be awarded ‘national standard’. There are higher expecta-
tions on the pupils in all areas of the curriculum. We also had out sample test ma-
terials for both these year groups, these are available on-line – just search for sam-
ple national tests. In the spring term we shall give you more details of the tests and
the teacher assessment.
Clubs
Apologies as a few parents thought that the clubs were on this week, but they
weren’t because of parents’ evenings. They are on next week.
Oak Class
We have had a report of head lice, please check your child's hair and treat. Also
could you bring in an old shirt for the children to wear when they are doing art.
APPLE This week in Apple class we have focused on
Phonics and Maths activities. In our Phonics sessions
we have covered c, ck, and e. The children have
read words and phrases and draw pictures. In
Maths we have worked on weight and counting
and comparing different sets of objects. Thank you
for coming to our parent consultation evenings and we hope you found them useful.
OAK This week Oak class have been working really hard on their grammar and have been
coming up with some fantastic adverbs and adjectives to make sentences more
interesting. We have also focused on using some tricky punctuation; using colons, semi-
colons, bullet points and brackets. We really enjoyed our trip to Ilkley Literary Festival to
listen to Steve Cole talk. He gave the class lots of great ideas for their writing. In maths
we have been thinking about multiples and factors and learning how to recognise a
prime number.
WILLOW
We have been working hard this week on our
place value skills and accuracy when working
with money. Some of us have been ‘purchasing’
sports cars at Willow Class garage and working
out how much we can save. We have also been
developing skills in newspaper writing and using
peer marking to check we have all used
our Top Tips effectively.
BEECH We are really enjoying our work on measuring length this week.
Here are Monty and Minny measuring their playdough ‘snakes’
with their bead strings. We have continued to look at non-fiction
books in literacy and have been labelling features of a fire engine
and writing facts about fire engines and fire fighters. We watched
a very exciting video clip of a fire being put out.
ASH Thank you to everyone that came to Ash class assembly. We really enjoyed sharing all of
our work with you. We worked hard to speak clearly and confidently. In Maths we have
been playing games on the computer to practice our rapid recall of number bonds. We
have been looking at recycling in Science and had lots of ideas about what we could
recycle! Please can I remind all parents that we do not bring toys into school (unless it is
for show and tell—see timetable). We have had lots of upset over toys getting lost or
swapped, so please can you ensure that your children do not bring them.
Lisa’s
Kitchen
Monday 2nd November
Cheese & Tomato Pasta
Syrup Sponge & Custard
Tuesday 3rd November
Meatloaf
Raspberry Bun
Wednesday 4th November
Meat & Potato Pie
Chocolate Mandarin
Sponge
Thursday 5th November
Chicken Korma
Toffee Apple Cake &
Custard
Friday 6th November
Battered Fish
Fruit Salad
Monday 19th October Fish Fingers
Jam Roly Poly & Custard
Tuesday 20th October Pasta Bolognaise
Flapjack
Wednesday 21st October
Chicken Pie
Arctic Roll & Peaches
Thursday 22nd October Beef Hot Pot
Biscuit, Cheese & Grapes
Friday 23rd October
Sausage, Potato & Beans
Halloween Biscuits
PTA Update and Forthcoming Party
Sally, Carolyn and myself would like to say a big hello to you all! We are
looking forward to some exciting times ahead with you all in the coming
school year. As always, we welcome any fundraising ideas from you and
volunteers are always welcomed with enthusiasm!
After our first informal meeting on Friday we have a few ideas that we
would like to share with you, the first being an Autumn fancy dress
party. This will be held in school on Friday 23rd October 3.30pm til
6 pm. Please see details on posters around school.
We are also asking for donations of any magazines, as current as possible,
that you have finished with (these can be adults or children's) We aim to
leave these in reception where you may purchase one for £1.50, a great
way to catch up on the latest celebrity gossip, gardening or children's
programmes at a much reduced price!
Finally, any jam jars that you may have, please bring them in! We have
many uses for them and donations throughout the year are appreciated.
Many thanks in advance, Claire Gautam
This is the main choice—there is
a vegetarian option available
every day (as per menus
sent at the start of term)
Football Report
Joey, Lewis, George, Jonny, Thomas, Alfie, Dylan, Corey, Neive and Kitty
all played in a Y3/4 football tournament at Sandylands last Friday. The
first match was 5 nil to us, then the 2nd match was 1 nil to them, 3rd
match was 3 nil to us, 4th match was 4 nil to them and then the 5th
match was 3 nil to us. Overall we came 4th . We were really proud of our
efforts. By Joey Driscoll
Can you Help?
World Prematurity Day is observed on the 17th November to raise
awareness of pre term birth and the care of premature babies world-
wide. Approximately 15 million babies are born prematurely every year, 1
in 10 around the world.
I volunteer on the neo natal unit at Bradford Royal Infirmary on behalf of
Bliss (Bliss.org.uk) and every year on World Prematurity Day we give gifts to
everyone currently spending time on the unit. This includes purple knitted
hats, one for each child. If any of our parents, grandparents or other
family members are a dab hand at knitting and would like to help out I
would be most grateful! I will need the hats for the first week in November
ideally (they must be purple!). If you need a pattern, please visit http://
www.fiberfluxblog.com/2011/02/free-pattern.html?m=1. Thank you.
Claire Gautam
Parking – Collection
Be aware that it is VERY busy at drop off and collection times. Please
consider parking at the village hall and walking up to school.
Assemblies
Next week: Thursday 22nd October it is Willow class assembly at 9am.
Friday 23rd October – achievement assembly, pupils are invited to bring
in something to show and speak about that they have achieved outside
school.
Oak and Willow class had been challenged to write a short story about
space on the back of a postcard. Amber Dobson won 2 tickets to go to
Settle Stories to see Tales from Cosmos—a story that was set in 1910
about a man shot down 9 suns so that we only had un in the whole wide
world. It was great.
Garg
rave C
of E
Prim
ary
School
Thurs
day 1
5th
Octo
ber
2015
Gargrave CE (VC) Primary School, Neville
Road, Gargrave, BD23 3RE
Tel: 01756 749433 Fax: 01756 749463
Email: admin@gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk
Website: www.gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk
See overleaf for
Holly Eyles (super reading)
Lola Dobson (excellent behaviour)
Ayaan Ali (knowing space facts—confident)
Samuel Blackwell (fantastic number task homework)
Lars Keyworth (perseverance with his can work)
Daisy Hill (working hard during paired reading)
Emma Hargraves and Megan Webb (for kindness towards other children)
Ollie Metcalfe (not giving up with his tricky work)
Zara Pratt (expressive brainbuilder work)
Every Child Counts: Every Child Contributes Issue 6
Kaitlin & Summer Teasdale
Skipping For Schools—Wednesday 21st October
We have invited Sports Skipping for Schools to host an all day skipping coaching
session where our children will have the opportunity to learn a range of skipping
skills. Skipping on a regular basis will help improve general levels of fitness and,
along with the different skipping skills and challenges taught during the day,
children will gain new found confidence in their own physical abilities. Parents are
invited to attend the presentation at the end of the day ay 2.50pm. Ropes will
also be available to buy on the day only at a cost of £4.00 each.
White Ribbons
Vacancy—Midday Supervisor
We are looking for a fun person who can work alongside the lunchtime staff to
ensure a safe, happy and active lunchtime. The person will be fully supported by
the other members of staff—5 hrs per week, working everyday 12.00pm – 1.00pm
Term Time Only. Closing date for applications ~ Friday 6th November 2015. The job
is advertised on the NYCC website or you can obtain an application pack from
school.
Vacancy—Kitchen Assistant
We have a vacancy for a general kitchen assistant to cover long term maternity
leave. It is for 2 hours per day (11.30am-1.30pm). To apply or ask any further
questions, please contact Vivienne Sadler on 07779788585.
Parents evening
Thanks to every parent for attending to discuss the learning of your child. Feed-
back from parents included requests for a maths calculations evening and a
meeting about assessment without levels. We shall arrange both for after half
term, dates to follow. Parents of pupils in years 2 and 6 were given copies of the
criteria for a child to be awarded ‘national standard’. There are higher expecta-
tions on the pupils in all areas of the curriculum. We also had out sample test ma-
terials for both these year groups, these are available on-line – just search for sam-
ple national tests. In the spring term we shall give you more details of the tests and
the teacher assessment.
Clubs
Apologies as a few parents thought that the clubs were on this week, but they
weren’t because of parents’ evenings. They are on next week.
Oak Class
We have had a report of head lice, please check your child's hair and treat. Also
could you bring in an old shirt for the children to wear when they are doing art.
APPLE This week in Apple class we have focused on
Phonics and Maths activities. In our Phonics sessions
we have covered c, ck, and e. The children have
read words and phrases and draw pictures. In
Maths we have worked on weight and counting
and comparing different sets of objects. Thank you
for coming to our parent consultation evenings and we hope you found them useful.
OAK This week Oak class have been working really hard on their grammar and have been
coming up with some fantastic adverbs and adjectives to make sentences more
interesting. We have also focused on using some tricky punctuation; using colons, semi-
colons, bullet points and brackets. We really enjoyed our trip to Ilkley Literary Festival to
listen to Steve Cole talk. He gave the class lots of great ideas for their writing. In maths
we have been thinking about multiples and factors and learning how to recognise a
prime number.
WILLOW
We have been working hard this week on our
place value skills and accuracy when working
with money. Some of us have been ‘purchasing’
sports cars at Willow Class garage and working
out how much we can save. We have also been
developing skills in newspaper writing and using
peer marking to check we have all used
our Top Tips effectively.
BEECH We are really enjoying our work on measuring length this week.
Here are Monty and Minny measuring their playdough ‘snakes’
with their bead strings. We have continued to look at non-fiction
books in literacy and have been labelling features of a fire engine
and writing facts about fire engines and fire fighters. We watched
a very exciting video clip of a fire being put out.
ASH Thank you to everyone that came to Ash class assembly. We really enjoyed sharing all of
our work with you. We worked hard to speak clearly and confidently. In Maths we have
been playing games on the computer to practice our rapid recall of number bonds. We
have been looking at recycling in Science and had lots of ideas about what we could
recycle! Please can I remind all parents that we do not bring toys into school (unless it is
for show and tell—see timetable). We have had lots of upset over toys getting lost or
swapped, so please can you ensure that your children do not bring them.
Lisa’s
Kitchen
Monday 2nd November
Cheese & Tomato Pasta
Syrup Sponge & Custard
Tuesday 3rd November
Meatloaf
Raspberry Bun
Wednesday 4th November
Meat & Potato Pie
Chocolate Mandarin
Sponge
Thursday 5th November
Chicken Korma
Toffee Apple Cake &
Custard
Friday 6th November
Battered Fish
Fruit Salad
Monday 19th October Fish Fingers
Jam Roly Poly & Custard
Tuesday 20th October Pasta Bolognaise
Flapjack
Wednesday 21st October
Chicken Pie
Arctic Roll & Peaches
Thursday 22nd October Beef Hot Pot
Biscuit, Cheese & Grapes
Friday 23rd October
Sausage, Potato & Beans
Halloween Biscuits
PTA Update and Forthcoming Party
Sally, Carolyn and myself would like to say a big hello to you all! We are
looking forward to some exciting times ahead with you all in the coming
school year. As always, we welcome any fundraising ideas from you and
volunteers are always welcomed with enthusiasm!
After our first informal meeting on Friday we have a few ideas that we
would like to share with you, the first being an Autumn fancy dress
party. This will be held in school on Friday 23rd October 3.30pm til
6 pm. Please see details on posters around school.
We are also asking for donations of any magazines, as current as possible,
that you have finished with (these can be adults or children's) We aim to
leave these in reception where you may purchase one for £1.50, a great
way to catch up on the latest celebrity gossip, gardening or children's
programmes at a much reduced price!
Finally, any jam jars that you may have, please bring them in! We have
many uses for them and donations throughout the year are appreciated.
Many thanks in advance, Claire Gautam
This is the main choice—there is
a vegetarian option available
every day (as per menus
sent at the start of term)
Football Report
Joey, Lewis, George, Jonny, Thomas, Alfie, Dylan, Corey, Neive and Kitty
all played in a Y3/4 football tournament at Sandylands last Friday. The
first match was 5 nil to us, then the 2nd match was 1 nil to them, 3rd
match was 3 nil to us, 4th match was 4 nil to them and then the 5th
match was 3 nil to us. Overall we came 4th . We were really proud of our
efforts. By Joey Driscoll
Can you Help?
World Prematurity Day is observed on the 17th November to raise
awareness of pre term birth and the care of premature babies world-
wide. Approximately 15 million babies are born prematurely every year, 1
in 10 around the world.
I volunteer on the neo natal unit at Bradford Royal Infirmary on behalf of
Bliss (Bliss.org.uk) and every year on World Prematurity Day we give gifts to
everyone currently spending time on the unit. This includes purple knitted
hats, one for each child. If any of our parents, grandparents or other
family members are a dab hand at knitting and would like to help out I
would be most grateful! I will need the hats for the first week in November
ideally (they must be purple!). If you need a pattern, please visit http://
www.fiberfluxblog.com/2011/02/free-pattern.html?m=1. Thank you.
Claire Gautam
Parking – Collection
Be aware that it is VERY busy at drop off and collection times. Please
consider parking at the village hall and walking up to school.
Assemblies
Next week: Thursday 22nd October it is Willow class assembly at 9am.
Friday 23rd October – achievement assembly, pupils are invited to bring
in something to show and speak about that they have achieved outside
school.
Oak and Willow class had been challenged to write a short story about
space on the back of a postcard. Amber Dobson won 2 tickets to go to
Settle Stories to see Tales from Cosmos—a story that was set in 1910
about a man shot down 9 suns so that we only had un in the whole wide
world. It was great.
Garg
rave C
of E
Prim
ary
School
Thurs
day 1
5th
Octo
ber
2015
Gargrave CE (VC) Primary School, Neville
Road, Gargrave, BD23 3RE
Tel: 01756 749433 Fax: 01756 749463
Email: admin@gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk
Website: www.gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk
See overleaf for
Holly Eyles (super reading)
Lola Dobson (excellent behaviour)
Ayaan Ali (knowing space facts—confident)
Samuel Blackwell (fantastic number task homework)
Lars Keyworth (perseverance with his can work)
Daisy Hill (working hard during paired reading)
Emma Hargraves and Megan Webb (for kindness towards other children)
Ollie Metcalfe (not giving up with his tricky work)
Zara Pratt (expressive brainbuilder work)
Every Child Counts: Every Child Contributes Issue 6
Gracie-Mae Robsinson
Skipping For Schools—Wednesday 21st October
We have invited Sports Skipping for Schools to host an all day skipping coaching
session where our children will have the opportunity to learn a range of skipping
skills. Skipping on a regular basis will help improve general levels of fitness and,
along with the different skipping skills and challenges taught during the day,
children will gain new found confidence in their own physical abilities. Parents are
invited to attend the presentation at the end of the day ay 2.50pm. Ropes will
also be available to buy on the day only at a cost of £4.00 each.
White Ribbons
Vacancy—Midday Supervisor
We are looking for a fun person who can work alongside the lunchtime staff to
ensure a safe, happy and active lunchtime. The person will be fully supported by
the other members of staff—5 hrs per week, working everyday 12.00pm – 1.00pm
Term Time Only. Closing date for applications ~ Friday 6th November 2015. The job
is advertised on the NYCC website or you can obtain an application pack from
school.
Vacancy—Kitchen Assistant
We have a vacancy for a general kitchen assistant to cover long term maternity
leave. It is for 2 hours per day (11.30am-1.30pm). To apply or ask any further
questions, please contact Vivienne Sadler on 07779788585.
Parents evening
Thanks to every parent for attending to discuss the learning of your child. Feed-
back from parents included requests for a maths calculations evening and a
meeting about assessment without levels. We shall arrange both for after half
term, dates to follow. Parents of pupils in years 2 and 6 were given copies of the
criteria for a child to be awarded ‘national standard’. There are higher expecta-
tions on the pupils in all areas of the curriculum. We also had out sample test ma-
terials for both these year groups, these are available on-line – just search for sam-
ple national tests. In the spring term we shall give you more details of the tests and
the teacher assessment.
Clubs
Apologies as a few parents thought that the clubs were on this week, but they
weren’t because of parents’ evenings. They are on next week.
Oak Class
We have had a report of head lice, please check your child's hair and treat. Also
could you bring in an old shirt for the children to wear when they are doing art.
APPLE This week in Apple class we have focused on
Phonics and Maths activities. In our Phonics sessions
we have covered c, ck, and e. The children have
read words and phrases and draw pictures. In
Maths we have worked on weight and counting
and comparing different sets of objects. Thank you
for coming to our parent consultation evenings and we hope you found them useful.
OAK This week Oak class have been working really hard on their grammar and have been
coming up with some fantastic adverbs and adjectives to make sentences more
interesting. We have also focused on using some tricky punctuation; using colons, semi-
colons, bullet points and brackets. We really enjoyed our trip to Ilkley Literary Festival to
listen to Steve Cole talk. He gave the class lots of great ideas for their writing. In maths
we have been thinking about multiples and factors and learning how to recognise a
prime number.
WILLOW
We have been working hard this week on our
place value skills and accuracy when working
with money. Some of us have been ‘purchasing’
sports cars at Willow Class garage and working
out how much we can save. We have also been
developing skills in newspaper writing and using
peer marking to check we have all used
our Top Tips effectively.
BEECH We are really enjoying our work on measuring length this week.
Here are Monty and Minny measuring their playdough ‘snakes’
with their bead strings. We have continued to look at non-fiction
books in literacy and have been labelling features of a fire engine
and writing facts about fire engines and fire fighters. We watched
a very exciting video clip of a fire being put out.
ASH Thank you to everyone that came to Ash class assembly. We really enjoyed sharing all of
our work with you. We worked hard to speak clearly and confidently. In Maths we have
been playing games on the computer to practice our rapid recall of number bonds. We
have been looking at recycling in Science and had lots of ideas about what we could
recycle! Please can I remind all parents that we do not bring toys into school (unless it is
for show and tell—see timetable). We have had lots of upset over toys getting lost or
swapped, so please can you ensure that your children do not bring them.
Lisa’s
Kitchen
Monday 2nd November
Cheese & Tomato Pasta
Syrup Sponge & Custard
Tuesday 3rd November
Meatloaf
Raspberry Bun
Wednesday 4th November
Meat & Potato Pie
Chocolate Mandarin
Sponge
Thursday 5th November
Chicken Korma
Toffee Apple Cake &
Custard
Friday 6th November
Battered Fish
Fruit Salad
Monday 19th October Fish Fingers
Jam Roly Poly & Custard
Tuesday 20th October Pasta Bolognaise
Flapjack
Wednesday 21st October
Chicken Pie
Arctic Roll & Peaches
Thursday 22nd October Beef Hot Pot
Biscuit, Cheese & Grapes
Friday 23rd October
Sausage, Potato & Beans
Halloween Biscuits
PTA Update and Forthcoming Party
Sally, Carolyn and myself would like to say a big hello to you all! We are
looking forward to some exciting times ahead with you all in the coming
school year. As always, we welcome any fundraising ideas from you and
volunteers are always welcomed with enthusiasm!
After our first informal meeting on Friday we have a few ideas that we
would like to share with you, the first being an Autumn fancy dress
party. This will be held in school on Friday 23rd October 3.30pm til
6 pm. Please see details on posters around school.
We are also asking for donations of any magazines, as current as possible,
that you have finished with (these can be adults or children's) We aim to
leave these in reception where you may purchase one for £1.50, a great
way to catch up on the latest celebrity gossip, gardening or children's
programmes at a much reduced price!
Finally, any jam jars that you may have, please bring them in! We have
many uses for them and donations throughout the year are appreciated.
Many thanks in advance, Claire Gautam
This is the main choice—there is
a vegetarian option available
every day (as per menus
sent at the start of term)
Football Report
Joey, Lewis, George, Jonny, Thomas, Alfie, Dylan, Corey, Neive and Kitty
all played in a Y3/4 football tournament at Sandylands last Friday. The
first match was 5 nil to us, then the 2nd match was 1 nil to them, 3rd
match was 3 nil to us, 4th match was 4 nil to them and then the 5th
match was 3 nil to us. Overall we came 4th . We were really proud of our
efforts. By Joey Driscoll
Can you Help?
World Prematurity Day is observed on the 17th November to raise
awareness of pre term birth and the care of premature babies world-
wide. Approximately 15 million babies are born prematurely every year, 1
in 10 around the world.
I volunteer on the neo natal unit at Bradford Royal Infirmary on behalf of
Bliss (Bliss.org.uk) and every year on World Prematurity Day we give gifts to
everyone currently spending time on the unit. This includes purple knitted
hats, one for each child. If any of our parents, grandparents or other
family members are a dab hand at knitting and would like to help out I
would be most grateful! I will need the hats for the first week in November
ideally (they must be purple!). If you need a pattern, please visit http://
www.fiberfluxblog.com/2011/02/free-pattern.html?m=1. Thank you.
Claire Gautam
Parking – Collection
Be aware that it is VERY busy at drop off and collection times. Please
consider parking at the village hall and walking up to school.
Assemblies
Next week: Thursday 22nd October it is Willow class assembly at 9am.
Friday 23rd October – achievement assembly, pupils are invited to bring
in something to show and speak about that they have achieved outside
school.
Oak and Willow class had been challenged to write a short story about
space on the back of a postcard. Amber Dobson won 2 tickets to go to
Settle Stories to see Tales from Cosmos—a story that was set in 1910
about a man shot down 9 suns so that we only had un in the whole wide
world. It was great.
Garg
rave C
of E
Prim
ary
School
Thurs
day 1
5th
Octo
ber
2015
Gargrave CE (VC) Primary School, Neville
Road, Gargrave, BD23 3RE
Tel: 01756 749433 Fax: 01756 749463
Email: admin@gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk
Website: www.gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk
See overleaf for
Holly Eyles (super reading)
Lola Dobson (excellent behaviour)
Ayaan Ali (knowing space facts—confident)
Samuel Blackwell (fantastic number task homework)
Lars Keyworth (perseverance with his can work)
Daisy Hill (working hard during paired reading)
Emma Hargraves and Megan Webb (for kindness towards other children)
Ollie Metcalfe (not giving up with his tricky work)
Zara Pratt (expressive brainbuilder work)
Every Child Counts: Every Child Contributes Issue 6
John Pearson
Skipping For Schools—Wednesday 21st October
We have invited Sports Skipping for Schools to host an all day skipping coaching
session where our children will have the opportunity to learn a range of skipping
skills. Skipping on a regular basis will help improve general levels of fitness and,
along with the different skipping skills and challenges taught during the day,
children will gain new found confidence in their own physical abilities. Parents are
invited to attend the presentation at the end of the day ay 2.50pm. Ropes will
also be available to buy on the day only at a cost of £4.00 each.
White Ribbons
Vacancy—Midday Supervisor
We are looking for a fun person who can work alongside the lunchtime staff to
ensure a safe, happy and active lunchtime. The person will be fully supported by
the other members of staff—5 hrs per week, working everyday 12.00pm – 1.00pm
Term Time Only. Closing date for applications ~ Friday 6th November 2015. The job
is advertised on the NYCC website or you can obtain an application pack from
school.
Vacancy—Kitchen Assistant
We have a vacancy for a general kitchen assistant to cover long term maternity
leave. It is for 2 hours per day (11.30am-1.30pm). To apply or ask any further
questions, please contact Vivienne Sadler on 07779788585.
Parents evening
Thanks to every parent for attending to discuss the learning of your child. Feed-
back from parents included requests for a maths calculations evening and a
meeting about assessment without levels. We shall arrange both for after half
term, dates to follow. Parents of pupils in years 2 and 6 were given copies of the
criteria for a child to be awarded ‘national standard’. There are higher expecta-
tions on the pupils in all areas of the curriculum. We also had out sample test ma-
terials for both these year groups, these are available on-line – just search for sam-
ple national tests. In the spring term we shall give you more details of the tests and
the teacher assessment.
Clubs
Apologies as a few parents thought that the clubs were on this week, but they
weren’t because of parents’ evenings. They are on next week.
Oak Class
We have had a report of head lice, please check your child's hair and treat. Also
could you bring in an old shirt for the children to wear when they are doing art.
APPLE This week in Apple class we have focused on
Phonics and Maths activities. In our Phonics sessions
we have covered c, ck, and e. The children have
read words and phrases and draw pictures. In
Maths we have worked on weight and counting
and comparing different sets of objects. Thank you
for coming to our parent consultation evenings and we hope you found them useful.
OAK This week Oak class have been working really hard on their grammar and have been
coming up with some fantastic adverbs and adjectives to make sentences more
interesting. We have also focused on using some tricky punctuation; using colons, semi-
colons, bullet points and brackets. We really enjoyed our trip to Ilkley Literary Festival to
listen to Steve Cole talk. He gave the class lots of great ideas for their writing. In maths
we have been thinking about multiples and factors and learning how to recognise a
prime number.
WILLOW
We have been working hard this week on our
place value skills and accuracy when working
with money. Some of us have been ‘purchasing’
sports cars at Willow Class garage and working
out how much we can save. We have also been
developing skills in newspaper writing and using
peer marking to check we have all used
our Top Tips effectively.
BEECH We are really enjoying our work on measuring length this week.
Here are Monty and Minny measuring their playdough ‘snakes’
with their bead strings. We have continued to look at non-fiction
books in literacy and have been labelling features of a fire engine
and writing facts about fire engines and fire fighters. We watched
a very exciting video clip of a fire being put out.
ASH Thank you to everyone that came to Ash class assembly. We really enjoyed sharing all of
our work with you. We worked hard to speak clearly and confidently. In Maths we have
been playing games on the computer to practice our rapid recall of number bonds. We
have been looking at recycling in Science and had lots of ideas about what we could
recycle! Please can I remind all parents that we do not bring toys into school (unless it is
for show and tell—see timetable). We have had lots of upset over toys getting lost or
swapped, so please can you ensure that your children do not bring them.
Lisa’s
Kitchen
Monday 2nd November
Cheese & Tomato Pasta
Syrup Sponge & Custard
Tuesday 3rd November
Meatloaf
Raspberry Bun
Wednesday 4th November
Meat & Potato Pie
Chocolate Mandarin
Sponge
Thursday 5th November
Chicken Korma
Toffee Apple Cake &
Custard
Friday 6th November
Battered Fish
Fruit Salad
Monday 19th October Fish Fingers
Jam Roly Poly & Custard
Tuesday 20th October Pasta Bolognaise
Flapjack
Wednesday 21st October
Chicken Pie
Arctic Roll & Peaches
Thursday 22nd October Beef Hot Pot
Biscuit, Cheese & Grapes
Friday 23rd October
Sausage, Potato & Beans
Halloween Biscuits
PTA Update and Forthcoming Party
Sally, Carolyn and myself would like to say a big hello to you all! We are
looking forward to some exciting times ahead with you all in the coming
school year. As always, we welcome any fundraising ideas from you and
volunteers are always welcomed with enthusiasm!
After our first informal meeting on Friday we have a few ideas that we
would like to share with you, the first being an Autumn fancy dress
party. This will be held in school on Friday 23rd October 3.30pm til
6 pm. Please see details on posters around school.
We are also asking for donations of any magazines, as current as possible,
that you have finished with (these can be adults or children's) We aim to
leave these in reception where you may purchase one for £1.50, a great
way to catch up on the latest celebrity gossip, gardening or children's
programmes at a much reduced price!
Finally, any jam jars that you may have, please bring them in! We have
many uses for them and donations throughout the year are appreciated.
Many thanks in advance, Claire Gautam
This is the main choice—there is
a vegetarian option available
every day (as per menus
sent at the start of term)
Football Report
Joey, Lewis, George, Jonny, Thomas, Alfie, Dylan, Corey, Neive and Kitty
all played in a Y3/4 football tournament at Sandylands last Friday. The
first match was 5 nil to us, then the 2nd match was 1 nil to them, 3rd
match was 3 nil to us, 4th match was 4 nil to them and then the 5th
match was 3 nil to us. Overall we came 4th . We were really proud of our
efforts. By Joey Driscoll
Can you Help?
World Prematurity Day is observed on the 17th November to raise
awareness of pre term birth and the care of premature babies world-
wide. Approximately 15 million babies are born prematurely every year, 1
in 10 around the world.
I volunteer on the neo natal unit at Bradford Royal Infirmary on behalf of
Bliss (Bliss.org.uk) and every year on World Prematurity Day we give gifts to
everyone currently spending time on the unit. This includes purple knitted
hats, one for each child. If any of our parents, grandparents or other
family members are a dab hand at knitting and would like to help out I
would be most grateful! I will need the hats for the first week in November
ideally (they must be purple!). If you need a pattern, please visit http://
www.fiberfluxblog.com/2011/02/free-pattern.html?m=1. Thank you.
Claire Gautam
Parking – Collection
Be aware that it is VERY busy at drop off and collection times. Please
consider parking at the village hall and walking up to school.
Assemblies
Next week: Thursday 22nd October it is Willow class assembly at 9am.
Friday 23rd October – achievement assembly, pupils are invited to bring
in something to show and speak about that they have achieved outside
school.
Oak and Willow class had been challenged to write a short story about
space on the back of a postcard. Amber Dobson won 2 tickets to go to
Settle Stories to see Tales from Cosmos—a story that was set in 1910
about a man shot down 9 suns so that we only had un in the whole wide
world. It was great.
Garg
rave C
of E
Prim
ary
School
Thurs
day 1
5th
Octo
ber
2015
Gargrave CE (VC) Primary School, Neville
Road, Gargrave, BD23 3RE
Tel: 01756 749433 Fax: 01756 749463
Email: admin@gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk
Website: www.gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk
See overleaf for
Holly Eyles (super reading)
Lola Dobson (excellent behaviour)
Ayaan Ali (knowing space facts—confident)
Samuel Blackwell (fantastic number task homework)
Lars Keyworth (perseverance with his can work)
Daisy Hill (working hard during paired reading)
Emma Hargraves and Megan Webb (for kindness towards other children)
Ollie Metcalfe (not giving up with his tricky work)
Zara Pratt (expressive brainbuilder work)
Every Child Counts: Every Child Contributes Issue 6
Ethan McMahon
Skipping For Schools—Wednesday 21st October
We have invited Sports Skipping for Schools to host an all day skipping coaching
session where our children will have the opportunity to learn a range of skipping
skills. Skipping on a regular basis will help improve general levels of fitness and,
along with the different skipping skills and challenges taught during the day,
children will gain new found confidence in their own physical abilities. Parents are
invited to attend the presentation at the end of the day ay 2.50pm. Ropes will
also be available to buy on the day only at a cost of £4.00 each.
White Ribbons
Vacancy—Midday Supervisor
We are looking for a fun person who can work alongside the lunchtime staff to
ensure a safe, happy and active lunchtime. The person will be fully supported by
the other members of staff—5 hrs per week, working everyday 12.00pm – 1.00pm
Term Time Only. Closing date for applications ~ Friday 6th November 2015. The job
is advertised on the NYCC website or you can obtain an application pack from
school.
Vacancy—Kitchen Assistant
We have a vacancy for a general kitchen assistant to cover long term maternity
leave. It is for 2 hours per day (11.30am-1.30pm). To apply or ask any further
questions, please contact Vivienne Sadler on 07779788585.
Parents evening
Thanks to every parent for attending to discuss the learning of your child. Feed-
back from parents included requests for a maths calculations evening and a
meeting about assessment without levels. We shall arrange both for after half
term, dates to follow. Parents of pupils in years 2 and 6 were given copies of the
criteria for a child to be awarded ‘national standard’. There are higher expecta-
tions on the pupils in all areas of the curriculum. We also had out sample test ma-
terials for both these year groups, these are available on-line – just search for sam-
ple national tests. In the spring term we shall give you more details of the tests and
the teacher assessment.
Clubs
Apologies as a few parents thought that the clubs were on this week, but they
weren’t because of parents’ evenings. They are on next week.
Oak Class
We have had a report of head lice, please check your child's hair and treat. Also
could you bring in an old shirt for the children to wear when they are doing art.
APPLE This week in Apple class we have focused on
Phonics and Maths activities. In our Phonics sessions
we have covered c, ck, and e. The children have
read words and phrases and draw pictures. In
Maths we have worked on weight and counting
and comparing different sets of objects. Thank you
for coming to our parent consultation evenings and we hope you found them useful.
OAK This week Oak class have been working really hard on their grammar and have been
coming up with some fantastic adverbs and adjectives to make sentences more
interesting. We have also focused on using some tricky punctuation; using colons, semi-
colons, bullet points and brackets. We really enjoyed our trip to Ilkley Literary Festival to
listen to Steve Cole talk. He gave the class lots of great ideas for their writing. In maths
we have been thinking about multiples and factors and learning how to recognise a
prime number.
WILLOW
We have been working hard this week on our
place value skills and accuracy when working
with money. Some of us have been ‘purchasing’
sports cars at Willow Class garage and working
out how much we can save. We have also been
developing skills in newspaper writing and using
peer marking to check we have all used
our Top Tips effectively.
BEECH We are really enjoying our work on measuring length this week.
Here are Monty and Minny measuring their playdough ‘snakes’
with their bead strings. We have continued to look at non-fiction
books in literacy and have been labelling features of a fire engine
and writing facts about fire engines and fire fighters. We watched
a very exciting video clip of a fire being put out.
ASH Thank you to everyone that came to Ash class assembly. We really enjoyed sharing all of
our work with you. We worked hard to speak clearly and confidently. In Maths we have
been playing games on the computer to practice our rapid recall of number bonds. We
have been looking at recycling in Science and had lots of ideas about what we could
recycle! Please can I remind all parents that we do not bring toys into school (unless it is
for show and tell—see timetable). We have had lots of upset over toys getting lost or
swapped, so please can you ensure that your children do not bring them.
Lisa’s
Kitchen
Monday 2nd November
Cheese & Tomato Pasta
Syrup Sponge & Custard
Tuesday 3rd November
Meatloaf
Raspberry Bun
Wednesday 4th November
Meat & Potato Pie
Chocolate Mandarin
Sponge
Thursday 5th November
Chicken Korma
Toffee Apple Cake &
Custard
Friday 6th November
Battered Fish
Fruit Salad
Monday 19th October Fish Fingers
Jam Roly Poly & Custard
Tuesday 20th October Pasta Bolognaise
Flapjack
Wednesday 21st October
Chicken Pie
Arctic Roll & Peaches
Thursday 22nd October Beef Hot Pot
Biscuit, Cheese & Grapes
Friday 23rd October
Sausage, Potato & Beans
Halloween Biscuits
PTA Update and Forthcoming Party
Sally, Carolyn and myself would like to say a big hello to you all! We are
looking forward to some exciting times ahead with you all in the coming
school year. As always, we welcome any fundraising ideas from you and
volunteers are always welcomed with enthusiasm!
After our first informal meeting on Friday we have a few ideas that we
would like to share with you, the first being an Autumn fancy dress
party. This will be held in school on Friday 23rd October 3.30pm til
6 pm. Please see details on posters around school.
We are also asking for donations of any magazines, as current as possible,
that you have finished with (these can be adults or children's) We aim to
leave these in reception where you may purchase one for £1.50, a great
way to catch up on the latest celebrity gossip, gardening or children's
programmes at a much reduced price!
Finally, any jam jars that you may have, please bring them in! We have
many uses for them and donations throughout the year are appreciated.
Many thanks in advance, Claire Gautam
This is the main choice—there is
a vegetarian option available
every day (as per menus
sent at the start of term)
Football Report
Joey, Lewis, George, Jonny, Thomas, Alfie, Dylan, Corey, Neive and Kitty
all played in a Y3/4 football tournament at Sandylands last Friday. The
first match was 5 nil to us, then the 2nd match was 1 nil to them, 3rd
match was 3 nil to us, 4th match was 4 nil to them and then the 5th
match was 3 nil to us. Overall we came 4th . We were really proud of our
efforts. By Joey Driscoll
Can you Help?
World Prematurity Day is observed on the 17th November to raise
awareness of pre term birth and the care of premature babies world-
wide. Approximately 15 million babies are born prematurely every year, 1
in 10 around the world.
I volunteer on the neo natal unit at Bradford Royal Infirmary on behalf of
Bliss (Bliss.org.uk) and every year on World Prematurity Day we give gifts to
everyone currently spending time on the unit. This includes purple knitted
hats, one for each child. If any of our parents, grandparents or other
family members are a dab hand at knitting and would like to help out I
would be most grateful! I will need the hats for the first week in November
ideally (they must be purple!). If you need a pattern, please visit http://
www.fiberfluxblog.com/2011/02/free-pattern.html?m=1. Thank you.
Claire Gautam
Parking – Collection
Be aware that it is VERY busy at drop off and collection times. Please
consider parking at the village hall and walking up to school.
Assemblies
Next week: Thursday 22nd October it is Willow class assembly at 9am.
Friday 23rd October – achievement assembly, pupils are invited to bring
in something to show and speak about that they have achieved outside
school.
Oak and Willow class had been challenged to write a short story about
space on the back of a postcard. Amber Dobson won 2 tickets to go to
Settle Stories to see Tales from Cosmos—a story that was set in 1910
about a man shot down 9 suns so that we only had un in the whole wide
world. It was great.
Garg
rave C
of E
Prim
ary
School
Thurs
day 1
5th
Octo
ber
2015
Gargrave CE (VC) Primary School, Neville
Road, Gargrave, BD23 3RE
Tel: 01756 749433 Fax: 01756 749463
Email: admin@gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk
Website: www.gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk
See overleaf for
Holly Eyles (super reading)
Lola Dobson (excellent behaviour)
Ayaan Ali (knowing space facts—confident)
Samuel Blackwell (fantastic number task homework)
Lars Keyworth (perseverance with his can work)
Daisy Hill (working hard during paired reading)
Emma Hargraves and Megan Webb (for kindness towards other children)
Ollie Metcalfe (not giving up with his tricky work)
Zara Pratt (expressive brainbuilder work)
Every Child Counts: Every Child Contributes Issue 6
Joshua Procter
Skipping For Schools—Wednesday 21st October
We have invited Sports Skipping for Schools to host an all day skipping coaching
session where our children will have the opportunity to learn a range of skipping
skills. Skipping on a regular basis will help improve general levels of fitness and,
along with the different skipping skills and challenges taught during the day,
children will gain new found confidence in their own physical abilities. Parents are
invited to attend the presentation at the end of the day ay 2.50pm. Ropes will
also be available to buy on the day only at a cost of £4.00 each.
White Ribbons
Vacancy—Midday Supervisor
We are looking for a fun person who can work alongside the lunchtime staff to
ensure a safe, happy and active lunchtime. The person will be fully supported by
the other members of staff—5 hrs per week, working everyday 12.00pm – 1.00pm
Term Time Only. Closing date for applications ~ Friday 6th November 2015. The job
is advertised on the NYCC website or you can obtain an application pack from
school.
Vacancy—Kitchen Assistant
We have a vacancy for a general kitchen assistant to cover long term maternity
leave. It is for 2 hours per day (11.30am-1.30pm). To apply or ask any further
questions, please contact Vivienne Sadler on 07779788585.
Parents evening
Thanks to every parent for attending to discuss the learning of your child. Feed-
back from parents included requests for a maths calculations evening and a
meeting about assessment without levels. We shall arrange both for after half
term, dates to follow. Parents of pupils in years 2 and 6 were given copies of the
criteria for a child to be awarded ‘national standard’. There are higher expecta-
tions on the pupils in all areas of the curriculum. We also had out sample test ma-
terials for both these year groups, these are available on-line – just search for sam-
ple national tests. In the spring term we shall give you more details of the tests and
the teacher assessment.
Clubs
Apologies as a few parents thought that the clubs were on this week, but they
weren’t because of parents’ evenings. They are on next week.
Oak Class
We have had a report of head lice, please check your child's hair and treat. Also
could you bring in an old shirt for the children to wear when they are doing art.
APPLE This week in Apple class we have focused on
Phonics and Maths activities. In our Phonics sessions
we have covered c, ck, and e. The children have
read words and phrases and draw pictures. In
Maths we have worked on weight and counting
and comparing different sets of objects. Thank you
for coming to our parent consultation evenings and we hope you found them useful.
OAK This week Oak class have been working really hard on their grammar and have been
coming up with some fantastic adverbs and adjectives to make sentences more
interesting. We have also focused on using some tricky punctuation; using colons, semi-
colons, bullet points and brackets. We really enjoyed our trip to Ilkley Literary Festival to
listen to Steve Cole talk. He gave the class lots of great ideas for their writing. In maths
we have been thinking about multiples and factors and learning how to recognise a
prime number.
WILLOW
We have been working hard this week on our
place value skills and accuracy when working
with money. Some of us have been ‘purchasing’
sports cars at Willow Class garage and working
out how much we can save. We have also been
developing skills in newspaper writing and using
peer marking to check we have all used
our Top Tips effectively.
BEECH We are really enjoying our work on measuring length this week.
Here are Monty and Minny measuring their playdough ‘snakes’
with their bead strings. We have continued to look at non-fiction
books in literacy and have been labelling features of a fire engine
and writing facts about fire engines and fire fighters. We watched
a very exciting video clip of a fire being put out.
ASH Thank you to everyone that came to Ash class assembly. We really enjoyed sharing all of
our work with you. We worked hard to speak clearly and confidently. In Maths we have
been playing games on the computer to practice our rapid recall of number bonds. We
have been looking at recycling in Science and had lots of ideas about what we could
recycle! Please can I remind all parents that we do not bring toys into school (unless it is
for show and tell—see timetable). We have had lots of upset over toys getting lost or
swapped, so please can you ensure that your children do not bring them.
Lisa’s
Kitchen
Monday 2nd November
Cheese & Tomato Pasta
Syrup Sponge & Custard
Tuesday 3rd November
Meatloaf
Raspberry Bun
Wednesday 4th November
Meat & Potato Pie
Chocolate Mandarin
Sponge
Thursday 5th November
Chicken Korma
Toffee Apple Cake &
Custard
Friday 6th November
Battered Fish
Fruit Salad
Monday 19th October Fish Fingers
Jam Roly Poly & Custard
Tuesday 20th October Pasta Bolognaise
Flapjack
Wednesday 21st October
Chicken Pie
Arctic Roll & Peaches
Thursday 22nd October Beef Hot Pot
Biscuit, Cheese & Grapes
Friday 23rd October
Sausage, Potato & Beans
Halloween Biscuits
PTA Update and Forthcoming Party
Sally, Carolyn and myself would like to say a big hello to you all! We are
looking forward to some exciting times ahead with you all in the coming
school year. As always, we welcome any fundraising ideas from you and
volunteers are always welcomed with enthusiasm!
After our first informal meeting on Friday we have a few ideas that we
would like to share with you, the first being an Autumn fancy dress
party. This will be held in school on Friday 23rd October 3.30pm til
6 pm. Please see details on posters around school.
We are also asking for donations of any magazines, as current as possible,
that you have finished with (these can be adults or children's) We aim to
leave these in reception where you may purchase one for £1.50, a great
way to catch up on the latest celebrity gossip, gardening or children's
programmes at a much reduced price!
Finally, any jam jars that you may have, please bring them in! We have
many uses for them and donations throughout the year are appreciated.
Many thanks in advance, Claire Gautam
This is the main choice—there is
a vegetarian option available
every day (as per menus
sent at the start of term)
Football Report
Joey, Lewis, George, Jonny, Thomas, Alfie, Dylan, Corey, Neive and Kitty
all played in a Y3/4 football tournament at Sandylands last Friday. The
first match was 5 nil to us, then the 2nd match was 1 nil to them, 3rd
match was 3 nil to us, 4th match was 4 nil to them and then the 5th
match was 3 nil to us. Overall we came 4th . We were really proud of our
efforts. By Joey Driscoll
Can you Help?
World Prematurity Day is observed on the 17th November to raise
awareness of pre term birth and the care of premature babies world-
wide. Approximately 15 million babies are born prematurely every year, 1
in 10 around the world.
I volunteer on the neo natal unit at Bradford Royal Infirmary on behalf of
Bliss (Bliss.org.uk) and every year on World Prematurity Day we give gifts to
everyone currently spending time on the unit. This includes purple knitted
hats, one for each child. If any of our parents, grandparents or other
family members are a dab hand at knitting and would like to help out I
would be most grateful! I will need the hats for the first week in November
ideally (they must be purple!). If you need a pattern, please visit http://
www.fiberfluxblog.com/2011/02/free-pattern.html?m=1. Thank you.
Claire Gautam
Parking – Collection
Be aware that it is VERY busy at drop off and collection times. Please
consider parking at the village hall and walking up to school.
Assemblies
Next week: Thursday 22nd October it is Willow class assembly at 9am.
Friday 23rd October – achievement assembly, pupils are invited to bring
in something to show and speak about that they have achieved outside
school.
Oak and Willow class had been challenged to write a short story about
space on the back of a postcard. Amber Dobson won 2 tickets to go to
Settle Stories to see Tales from Cosmos—a story that was set in 1910
about a man shot down 9 suns so that we only had un in the whole wide
world. It was great.
Garg
rave C
of E
Prim
ary
School
Thurs
day 1
5th
Octo
ber
2015
Gargrave CE (VC) Primary School, Neville
Road, Gargrave, BD23 3RE
Tel: 01756 749433 Fax: 01756 749463
Email: admin@gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk
Website: www.gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk
See overleaf for
Holly Eyles (super reading)
Lola Dobson (excellent behaviour)
Ayaan Ali (knowing space facts—confident)
Samuel Blackwell (fantastic number task homework)
Lars Keyworth (perseverance with his can work)
Daisy Hill (working hard during paired reading)
Emma Hargraves and Megan Webb (for kindness towards other children)
Ollie Metcalfe (not giving up with his tricky work)
Zara Pratt (expressive brainbuilder work)
Every Child Counts: Every Child Contributes Issue 6
Isaac Lottey
Skipping For Schools—Wednesday 21st October
We have invited Sports Skipping for Schools to host an all day skipping coaching
session where our children will have the opportunity to learn a range of skipping
skills. Skipping on a regular basis will help improve general levels of fitness and,
along with the different skipping skills and challenges taught during the day,
children will gain new found confidence in their own physical abilities. Parents are
invited to attend the presentation at the end of the day ay 2.50pm. Ropes will
also be available to buy on the day only at a cost of £4.00 each.
White Ribbons
Vacancy—Midday Supervisor
We are looking for a fun person who can work alongside the lunchtime staff to
ensure a safe, happy and active lunchtime. The person will be fully supported by
the other members of staff—5 hrs per week, working everyday 12.00pm – 1.00pm
Term Time Only. Closing date for applications ~ Friday 6th November 2015. The job
is advertised on the NYCC website or you can obtain an application pack from
school.
Vacancy—Kitchen Assistant
We have a vacancy for a general kitchen assistant to cover long term maternity
leave. It is for 2 hours per day (11.30am-1.30pm). To apply or ask any further
questions, please contact Vivienne Sadler on 07779788585.
Parents evening
Thanks to every parent for attending to discuss the learning of your child. Feed-
back from parents included requests for a maths calculations evening and a
meeting about assessment without levels. We shall arrange both for after half
term, dates to follow. Parents of pupils in years 2 and 6 were given copies of the
criteria for a child to be awarded ‘national standard’. There are higher expecta-
tions on the pupils in all areas of the curriculum. We also had out sample test ma-
terials for both these year groups, these are available on-line – just search for sam-
ple national tests. In the spring term we shall give you more details of the tests and
the teacher assessment.
Clubs
Apologies as a few parents thought that the clubs were on this week, but they
weren’t because of parents’ evenings. They are on next week.
Oak Class
We have had a report of head lice, please check your child's hair and treat. Also
could you bring in an old shirt for the children to wear when they are doing art.
APPLE This week in Apple class we have focused on
Phonics and Maths activities. In our Phonics sessions
we have covered c, ck, and e. The children have
read words and phrases and draw pictures. In
Maths we have worked on weight and counting
and comparing different sets of objects. Thank you
for coming to our parent consultation evenings and we hope you found them useful.
OAK This week Oak class have been working really hard on their grammar and have been
coming up with some fantastic adverbs and adjectives to make sentences more
interesting. We have also focused on using some tricky punctuation; using colons, semi-
colons, bullet points and brackets. We really enjoyed our trip to Ilkley Literary Festival to
listen to Steve Cole talk. He gave the class lots of great ideas for their writing. In maths
we have been thinking about multiples and factors and learning how to recognise a
prime number.
WILLOW
We have been working hard this week on our
place value skills and accuracy when working
with money. Some of us have been ‘purchasing’
sports cars at Willow Class garage and working
out how much we can save. We have also been
developing skills in newspaper writing and using
peer marking to check we have all used
our Top Tips effectively.
BEECH We are really enjoying our work on measuring length this week.
Here are Monty and Minny measuring their playdough ‘snakes’
with their bead strings. We have continued to look at non-fiction
books in literacy and have been labelling features of a fire engine
and writing facts about fire engines and fire fighters. We watched
a very exciting video clip of a fire being put out.
ASH Thank you to everyone that came to Ash class assembly. We really enjoyed sharing all of
our work with you. We worked hard to speak clearly and confidently. In Maths we have
been playing games on the computer to practice our rapid recall of number bonds. We
have been looking at recycling in Science and had lots of ideas about what we could
recycle! Please can I remind all parents that we do not bring toys into school (unless it is
for show and tell—see timetable). We have had lots of upset over toys getting lost or
swapped, so please can you ensure that your children do not bring them.
Lisa’s
Kitchen
Monday 2nd November
Cheese & Tomato Pasta
Syrup Sponge & Custard
Tuesday 3rd November
Meatloaf
Raspberry Bun
Wednesday 4th November
Meat & Potato Pie
Chocolate Mandarin
Sponge
Thursday 5th November
Chicken Korma
Toffee Apple Cake &
Custard
Friday 6th November
Battered Fish
Fruit Salad
Monday 19th October Fish Fingers
Jam Roly Poly & Custard
Tuesday 20th October Pasta Bolognaise
Flapjack
Wednesday 21st October
Chicken Pie
Arctic Roll & Peaches
Thursday 22nd October Beef Hot Pot
Biscuit, Cheese & Grapes
Friday 23rd October
Sausage, Potato & Beans
Halloween Biscuits
PTA Update and Forthcoming Party
Sally, Carolyn and myself would like to say a big hello to you all! We are
looking forward to some exciting times ahead with you all in the coming
school year. As always, we welcome any fundraising ideas from you and
volunteers are always welcomed with enthusiasm!
After our first informal meeting on Friday we have a few ideas that we
would like to share with you, the first being an Autumn fancy dress
party. This will be held in school on Friday 23rd October 3.30pm til
6 pm. Please see details on posters around school.
We are also asking for donations of any magazines, as current as possible,
that you have finished with (these can be adults or children's) We aim to
leave these in reception where you may purchase one for £1.50, a great
way to catch up on the latest celebrity gossip, gardening or children's
programmes at a much reduced price!
Finally, any jam jars that you may have, please bring them in! We have
many uses for them and donations throughout the year are appreciated.
Many thanks in advance, Claire Gautam
This is the main choice—there is
a vegetarian option available
every day (as per menus
sent at the start of term)
Football Report
Joey, Lewis, George, Jonny, Thomas, Alfie, Dylan, Corey, Neive and Kitty
all played in a Y3/4 football tournament at Sandylands last Friday. The
first match was 5 nil to us, then the 2nd match was 1 nil to them, 3rd
match was 3 nil to us, 4th match was 4 nil to them and then the 5th
match was 3 nil to us. Overall we came 4th . We were really proud of our
efforts. By Joey Driscoll
Can you Help?
World Prematurity Day is observed on the 17th November to raise
awareness of pre term birth and the care of premature babies world-
wide. Approximately 15 million babies are born prematurely every year, 1
in 10 around the world.
I volunteer on the neo natal unit at Bradford Royal Infirmary on behalf of
Bliss (Bliss.org.uk) and every year on World Prematurity Day we give gifts to
everyone currently spending time on the unit. This includes purple knitted
hats, one for each child. If any of our parents, grandparents or other
family members are a dab hand at knitting and would like to help out I
would be most grateful! I will need the hats for the first week in November
ideally (they must be purple!). If you need a pattern, please visit http://
www.fiberfluxblog.com/2011/02/free-pattern.html?m=1. Thank you.
Claire Gautam
Parking – Collection
Be aware that it is VERY busy at drop off and collection times. Please
consider parking at the village hall and walking up to school.
Assemblies
Next week: Thursday 22nd October it is Willow class assembly at 9am.
Friday 23rd October – achievement assembly, pupils are invited to bring
in something to show and speak about that they have achieved outside
school.
Oak and Willow class had been challenged to write a short story about
space on the back of a postcard. Amber Dobson won 2 tickets to go to
Settle Stories to see Tales from Cosmos—a story that was set in 1910
about a man shot down 9 suns so that we only had un in the whole wide
world. It was great.
Garg
rave C
of E
Prim
ary
School
Thurs
day 1
5th
Octo
ber
2015
Gargrave CE (VC) Primary School, Neville
Road, Gargrave, BD23 3RE
Tel: 01756 749433 Fax: 01756 749463
Email: admin@gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk
Website: www.gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk
See overleaf for
Holly Eyles (super reading)
Lola Dobson (excellent behaviour)
Ayaan Ali (knowing space facts—confident)
Samuel Blackwell (fantastic number task homework)
Lars Keyworth (perseverance with his can work)
Daisy Hill (working hard during paired reading)
Emma Hargraves and Megan Webb (for kindness towards other children)
Ollie Metcalfe (not giving up with his tricky work)
Zara Pratt (expressive brainbuilder work)
Every Child Counts: Every Child Contributes Issue 6
Reece & Phoenix Gautam
Skipping For Schools—Wednesday 21st October
We have invited Sports Skipping for Schools to host an all day skipping coaching
session where our children will have the opportunity to learn a range of skipping
skills. Skipping on a regular basis will help improve general levels of fitness and,
along with the different skipping skills and challenges taught during the day,
children will gain new found confidence in their own physical abilities. Parents are
invited to attend the presentation at the end of the day ay 2.50pm. Ropes will
also be available to buy on the day only at a cost of £4.00 each.
White Ribbons
Vacancy—Midday Supervisor
We are looking for a fun person who can work alongside the lunchtime staff to
ensure a safe, happy and active lunchtime. The person will be fully supported by
the other members of staff—5 hrs per week, working everyday 12.00pm – 1.00pm
Term Time Only. Closing date for applications ~ Friday 6th November 2015. The job
is advertised on the NYCC website or you can obtain an application pack from
school.
Vacancy—Kitchen Assistant
We have a vacancy for a general kitchen assistant to cover long term maternity
leave. It is for 2 hours per day (11.30am-1.30pm). To apply or ask any further
questions, please contact Vivienne Sadler on 07779788585.
Parents evening
Thanks to every parent for attending to discuss the learning of your child. Feed-
back from parents included requests for a maths calculations evening and a
meeting about assessment without levels. We shall arrange both for after half
term, dates to follow. Parents of pupils in years 2 and 6 were given copies of the
criteria for a child to be awarded ‘national standard’. There are higher expecta-
tions on the pupils in all areas of the curriculum. We also had out sample test ma-
terials for both these year groups, these are available on-line – just search for sam-
ple national tests. In the spring term we shall give you more details of the tests and
the teacher assessment.
Clubs
Apologies as a few parents thought that the clubs were on this week, but they
weren’t because of parents’ evenings. They are on next week.
Oak Class
We have had a report of head lice, please check your child's hair and treat. Also
could you bring in an old shirt for the children to wear when they are doing art.
APPLE This week in Apple class we have focused on
Phonics and Maths activities. In our Phonics sessions
we have covered c, ck, and e. The children have
read words and phrases and draw pictures. In
Maths we have worked on weight and counting
and comparing different sets of objects. Thank you
for coming to our parent consultation evenings and we hope you found them useful.
OAK This week Oak class have been working really hard on their grammar and have been
coming up with some fantastic adverbs and adjectives to make sentences more
interesting. We have also focused on using some tricky punctuation; using colons, semi-
colons, bullet points and brackets. We really enjoyed our trip to Ilkley Literary Festival to
listen to Steve Cole talk. He gave the class lots of great ideas for their writing. In maths
we have been thinking about multiples and factors and learning how to recognise a
prime number.
WILLOW
We have been working hard this week on our
place value skills and accuracy when working
with money. Some of us have been ‘purchasing’
sports cars at Willow Class garage and working
out how much we can save. We have also been
developing skills in newspaper writing and using
peer marking to check we have all used
our Top Tips effectively.
BEECH We are really enjoying our work on measuring length this week.
Here are Monty and Minny measuring their playdough ‘snakes’
with their bead strings. We have continued to look at non-fiction
books in literacy and have been labelling features of a fire engine
and writing facts about fire engines and fire fighters. We watched
a very exciting video clip of a fire being put out.
ASH Thank you to everyone that came to Ash class assembly. We really enjoyed sharing all of
our work with you. We worked hard to speak clearly and confidently. In Maths we have
been playing games on the computer to practice our rapid recall of number bonds. We
have been looking at recycling in Science and had lots of ideas about what we could
recycle! Please can I remind all parents that we do not bring toys into school (unless it is
for show and tell—see timetable). We have had lots of upset over toys getting lost or
swapped, so please can you ensure that your children do not bring them.
Lisa’s
Kitchen
Monday 2nd November
Cheese & Tomato Pasta
Syrup Sponge & Custard
Tuesday 3rd November
Meatloaf
Raspberry Bun
Wednesday 4th November
Meat & Potato Pie
Chocolate Mandarin
Sponge
Thursday 5th November
Chicken Korma
Toffee Apple Cake &
Custard
Friday 6th November
Battered Fish
Fruit Salad
Monday 19th October Fish Fingers
Jam Roly Poly & Custard
Tuesday 20th October Pasta Bolognaise
Flapjack
Wednesday 21st October
Chicken Pie
Arctic Roll & Peaches
Thursday 22nd October Beef Hot Pot
Biscuit, Cheese & Grapes
Friday 23rd October
Sausage, Potato & Beans
Halloween Biscuits
PTA Update and Forthcoming Party
Sally, Carolyn and myself would like to say a big hello to you all! We are
looking forward to some exciting times ahead with you all in the coming
school year. As always, we welcome any fundraising ideas from you and
volunteers are always welcomed with enthusiasm!
After our first informal meeting on Friday we have a few ideas that we
would like to share with you, the first being an Autumn fancy dress
party. This will be held in school on Friday 23rd October 3.30pm til
6 pm. Please see details on posters around school.
We are also asking for donations of any magazines, as current as possible,
that you have finished with (these can be adults or children's) We aim to
leave these in reception where you may purchase one for £1.50, a great
way to catch up on the latest celebrity gossip, gardening or children's
programmes at a much reduced price!
Finally, any jam jars that you may have, please bring them in! We have
many uses for them and donations throughout the year are appreciated.
Many thanks in advance, Claire Gautam
This is the main choice—there is
a vegetarian option available
every day (as per menus
sent at the start of term)
Football Report
Joey, Lewis, George, Jonny, Thomas, Alfie, Dylan, Corey, Neive and Kitty
all played in a Y3/4 football tournament at Sandylands last Friday. The
first match was 5 nil to us, then the 2nd match was 1 nil to them, 3rd
match was 3 nil to us, 4th match was 4 nil to them and then the 5th
match was 3 nil to us. Overall we came 4th . We were really proud of our
efforts. By Joey Driscoll
Can you Help?
World Prematurity Day is observed on the 17th November to raise
awareness of pre term birth and the care of premature babies world-
wide. Approximately 15 million babies are born prematurely every year, 1
in 10 around the world.
I volunteer on the neo natal unit at Bradford Royal Infirmary on behalf of
Bliss (Bliss.org.uk) and every year on World Prematurity Day we give gifts to
everyone currently spending time on the unit. This includes purple knitted
hats, one for each child. If any of our parents, grandparents or other
family members are a dab hand at knitting and would like to help out I
would be most grateful! I will need the hats for the first week in November
ideally (they must be purple!). If you need a pattern, please visit http://
www.fiberfluxblog.com/2011/02/free-pattern.html?m=1. Thank you.
Claire Gautam
Parking – Collection
Be aware that it is VERY busy at drop off and collection times. Please
consider parking at the village hall and walking up to school.
Assemblies
Next week: Thursday 22nd October it is Willow class assembly at 9am.
Friday 23rd October – achievement assembly, pupils are invited to bring
in something to show and speak about that they have achieved outside
school.
Oak and Willow class had been challenged to write a short story about
space on the back of a postcard. Amber Dobson won 2 tickets to go to
Settle Stories to see Tales from Cosmos—a story that was set in 1910
about a man shot down 9 suns so that we only had un in the whole wide
world. It was great.
Garg
rave C
of E
Prim
ary
School
Thurs
day 1
5th
Octo
ber
2015
Gargrave CE (VC) Primary School, Neville
Road, Gargrave, BD23 3RE
Tel: 01756 749433 Fax: 01756 749463
Email: admin@gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk
Website: www.gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk
See overleaf for
Holly Eyles (super reading)
Lola Dobson (excellent behaviour)
Ayaan Ali (knowing space facts—confident)
Samuel Blackwell (fantastic number task homework)
Lars Keyworth (perseverance with his can work)
Daisy Hill (working hard during paired reading)
Emma Hargraves and Megan Webb (for kindness towards other children)
Ollie Metcalfe (not giving up with his tricky work)
Zara Pratt (expressive brainbuilder work)
Every Child Counts: Every Child Contributes Issue 6
Oliver & Monty Green
Skipping For Schools—Wednesday 21st October
We have invited Sports Skipping for Schools to host an all day skipping coaching
session where our children will have the opportunity to learn a range of skipping
skills. Skipping on a regular basis will help improve general levels of fitness and,
along with the different skipping skills and challenges taught during the day,
children will gain new found confidence in their own physical abilities. Parents are
invited to attend the presentation at the end of the day ay 2.50pm. Ropes will
also be available to buy on the day only at a cost of £4.00 each.
White Ribbons
Vacancy—Midday Supervisor
We are looking for a fun person who can work alongside the lunchtime staff to
ensure a safe, happy and active lunchtime. The person will be fully supported by
the other members of staff—5 hrs per week, working everyday 12.00pm – 1.00pm
Term Time Only. Closing date for applications ~ Friday 6th November 2015. The job
is advertised on the NYCC website or you can obtain an application pack from
school.
Vacancy—Kitchen Assistant
We have a vacancy for a general kitchen assistant to cover long term maternity
leave. It is for 2 hours per day (11.30am-1.30pm). To apply or ask any further
questions, please contact Vivienne Sadler on 07779788585.
Parents evening
Thanks to every parent for attending to discuss the learning of your child. Feed-
back from parents included requests for a maths calculations evening and a
meeting about assessment without levels. We shall arrange both for after half
term, dates to follow. Parents of pupils in years 2 and 6 were given copies of the
criteria for a child to be awarded ‘national standard’. There are higher expecta-
tions on the pupils in all areas of the curriculum. We also had out sample test ma-
terials for both these year groups, these are available on-line – just search for sam-
ple national tests. In the spring term we shall give you more details of the tests and
the teacher assessment.
Clubs
Apologies as a few parents thought that the clubs were on this week, but they
weren’t because of parents’ evenings. They are on next week.
Oak Class
We have had a report of head lice, please check your child's hair and treat. Also
could you bring in an old shirt for the children to wear when they are doing art.
APPLE This week in Apple class we have focused on
Phonics and Maths activities. In our Phonics sessions
we have covered c, ck, and e. The children have
read words and phrases and draw pictures. In
Maths we have worked on weight and counting
and comparing different sets of objects. Thank you
for coming to our parent consultation evenings and we hope you found them useful.
OAK This week Oak class have been working really hard on their grammar and have been
coming up with some fantastic adverbs and adjectives to make sentences more
interesting. We have also focused on using some tricky punctuation; using colons, semi-
colons, bullet points and brackets. We really enjoyed our trip to Ilkley Literary Festival to
listen to Steve Cole talk. He gave the class lots of great ideas for their writing. In maths
we have been thinking about multiples and factors and learning how to recognise a
prime number.
WILLOW
We have been working hard this week on our
place value skills and accuracy when working
with money. Some of us have been ‘purchasing’
sports cars at Willow Class garage and working
out how much we can save. We have also been
developing skills in newspaper writing and using
peer marking to check we have all used
our Top Tips effectively.
BEECH We are really enjoying our work on measuring length this week.
Here are Monty and Minny measuring their playdough ‘snakes’
with their bead strings. We have continued to look at non-fiction
books in literacy and have been labelling features of a fire engine
and writing facts about fire engines and fire fighters. We watched
a very exciting video clip of a fire being put out.
ASH Thank you to everyone that came to Ash class assembly. We really enjoyed sharing all of
our work with you. We worked hard to speak clearly and confidently. In Maths we have
been playing games on the computer to practice our rapid recall of number bonds. We
have been looking at recycling in Science and had lots of ideas about what we could
recycle! Please can I remind all parents that we do not bring toys into school (unless it is
for show and tell—see timetable). We have had lots of upset over toys getting lost or
swapped, so please can you ensure that your children do not bring them.
Lisa’s
Kitchen
Monday 2nd November
Cheese & Tomato Pasta
Syrup Sponge & Custard
Tuesday 3rd November
Meatloaf
Raspberry Bun
Wednesday 4th November
Meat & Potato Pie
Chocolate Mandarin
Sponge
Thursday 5th November
Chicken Korma
Toffee Apple Cake &
Custard
Friday 6th November
Battered Fish
Fruit Salad
Monday 19th October Fish Fingers
Jam Roly Poly & Custard
Tuesday 20th October Pasta Bolognaise
Flapjack
Wednesday 21st October
Chicken Pie
Arctic Roll & Peaches
Thursday 22nd October Beef Hot Pot
Biscuit, Cheese & Grapes
Friday 23rd October
Sausage, Potato & Beans
Halloween Biscuits
PTA Update and Forthcoming Party
Sally, Carolyn and myself would like to say a big hello to you all! We are
looking forward to some exciting times ahead with you all in the coming
school year. As always, we welcome any fundraising ideas from you and
volunteers are always welcomed with enthusiasm!
After our first informal meeting on Friday we have a few ideas that we
would like to share with you, the first being an Autumn fancy dress
party. This will be held in school on Friday 23rd October 3.30pm til
6 pm. Please see details on posters around school.
We are also asking for donations of any magazines, as current as possible,
that you have finished with (these can be adults or children's) We aim to
leave these in reception where you may purchase one for £1.50, a great
way to catch up on the latest celebrity gossip, gardening or children's
programmes at a much reduced price!
Finally, any jam jars that you may have, please bring them in! We have
many uses for them and donations throughout the year are appreciated.
Many thanks in advance, Claire Gautam
This is the main choice—there is
a vegetarian option available
every day (as per menus
sent at the start of term)
Football Report
Joey, Lewis, George, Jonny, Thomas, Alfie, Dylan, Corey, Neive and Kitty
all played in a Y3/4 football tournament at Sandylands last Friday. The
first match was 5 nil to us, then the 2nd match was 1 nil to them, 3rd
match was 3 nil to us, 4th match was 4 nil to them and then the 5th
match was 3 nil to us. Overall we came 4th . We were really proud of our
efforts. By Joey Driscoll
Can you Help?
World Prematurity Day is observed on the 17th November to raise
awareness of pre term birth and the care of premature babies world-
wide. Approximately 15 million babies are born prematurely every year, 1
in 10 around the world.
I volunteer on the neo natal unit at Bradford Royal Infirmary on behalf of
Bliss (Bliss.org.uk) and every year on World Prematurity Day we give gifts to
everyone currently spending time on the unit. This includes purple knitted
hats, one for each child. If any of our parents, grandparents or other
family members are a dab hand at knitting and would like to help out I
would be most grateful! I will need the hats for the first week in November
ideally (they must be purple!). If you need a pattern, please visit http://
www.fiberfluxblog.com/2011/02/free-pattern.html?m=1. Thank you.
Claire Gautam
Parking – Collection
Be aware that it is VERY busy at drop off and collection times. Please
consider parking at the village hall and walking up to school.
Assemblies
Next week: Thursday 22nd October it is Willow class assembly at 9am.
Friday 23rd October – achievement assembly, pupils are invited to bring
in something to show and speak about that they have achieved outside
school.
Oak and Willow class had been challenged to write a short story about
space on the back of a postcard. Amber Dobson won 2 tickets to go to
Settle Stories to see Tales from Cosmos—a story that was set in 1910
about a man shot down 9 suns so that we only had un in the whole wide
world. It was great.
Garg
rave C
of E
Prim
ary
School
Thurs
day 1
5th
Octo
ber
2015
Gargrave CE (VC) Primary School, Neville
Road, Gargrave, BD23 3RE
Tel: 01756 749433 Fax: 01756 749463
Email: admin@gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk
Website: www.gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk
See overleaf for
Holly Eyles (super reading)
Lola Dobson (excellent behaviour)
Ayaan Ali (knowing space facts—confident)
Samuel Blackwell (fantastic number task homework)
Lars Keyworth (perseverance with his can work)
Daisy Hill (working hard during paired reading)
Emma Hargraves and Megan Webb (for kindness towards other children)
Ollie Metcalfe (not giving up with his tricky work)
Zara Pratt (expressive brainbuilder work)
Every Child Counts: Every Child Contributes Issue 6
Lily Brown
Skipping For Schools—Wednesday 21st October
We have invited Sports Skipping for Schools to host an all day skipping coaching
session where our children will have the opportunity to learn a range of skipping
skills. Skipping on a regular basis will help improve general levels of fitness and,
along with the different skipping skills and challenges taught during the day,
children will gain new found confidence in their own physical abilities. Parents are
invited to attend the presentation at the end of the day ay 2.50pm. Ropes will
also be available to buy on the day only at a cost of £4.00 each.
White Ribbons
Vacancy—Midday Supervisor
We are looking for a fun person who can work alongside the lunchtime staff to
ensure a safe, happy and active lunchtime. The person will be fully supported by
the other members of staff—5 hrs per week, working everyday 12.00pm – 1.00pm
Term Time Only. Closing date for applications ~ Friday 6th November 2015. The job
is advertised on the NYCC website or you can obtain an application pack from
school.
Vacancy—Kitchen Assistant
We have a vacancy for a general kitchen assistant to cover long term maternity
leave. It is for 2 hours per day (11.30am-1.30pm). To apply or ask any further
questions, please contact Vivienne Sadler on 07779788585.
Parents evening
Thanks to every parent for attending to discuss the learning of your child. Feed-
back from parents included requests for a maths calculations evening and a
meeting about assessment without levels. We shall arrange both for after half
term, dates to follow. Parents of pupils in years 2 and 6 were given copies of the
criteria for a child to be awarded ‘national standard’. There are higher expecta-
tions on the pupils in all areas of the curriculum. We also had out sample test ma-
terials for both these year groups, these are available on-line – just search for sam-
ple national tests. In the spring term we shall give you more details of the tests and
the teacher assessment.
Clubs
Apologies as a few parents thought that the clubs were on this week, but they
weren’t because of parents’ evenings. They are on next week.
Oak Class
We have had a report of head lice, please check your child's hair and treat. Also
could you bring in an old shirt for the children to wear when they are doing art.
APPLE This week in Apple class we have focused on
Phonics and Maths activities. In our Phonics sessions
we have covered c, ck, and e. The children have
read words and phrases and draw pictures. In
Maths we have worked on weight and counting
and comparing different sets of objects. Thank you
for coming to our parent consultation evenings and we hope you found them useful.
OAK This week Oak class have been working really hard on their grammar and have been
coming up with some fantastic adverbs and adjectives to make sentences more
interesting. We have also focused on using some tricky punctuation; using colons, semi-
colons, bullet points and brackets. We really enjoyed our trip to Ilkley Literary Festival to
listen to Steve Cole talk. He gave the class lots of great ideas for their writing. In maths
we have been thinking about multiples and factors and learning how to recognise a
prime number.
WILLOW
We have been working hard this week on our
place value skills and accuracy when working
with money. Some of us have been ‘purchasing’
sports cars at Willow Class garage and working
out how much we can save. We have also been
developing skills in newspaper writing and using
peer marking to check we have all used
our Top Tips effectively.
BEECH We are really enjoying our work on measuring length this week.
Here are Monty and Minny measuring their playdough ‘snakes’
with their bead strings. We have continued to look at non-fiction
books in literacy and have been labelling features of a fire engine
and writing facts about fire engines and fire fighters. We watched
a very exciting video clip of a fire being put out.
ASH Thank you to everyone that came to Ash class assembly. We really enjoyed sharing all of
our work with you. We worked hard to speak clearly and confidently. In Maths we have
been playing games on the computer to practice our rapid recall of number bonds. We
have been looking at recycling in Science and had lots of ideas about what we could
recycle! Please can I remind all parents that we do not bring toys into school (unless it is
for show and tell—see timetable). We have had lots of upset over toys getting lost or
swapped, so please can you ensure that your children do not bring them.
Lisa’s
Kitchen
Monday 2nd November
Cheese & Tomato Pasta
Syrup Sponge & Custard
Tuesday 3rd November
Meatloaf
Raspberry Bun
Wednesday 4th November
Meat & Potato Pie
Chocolate Mandarin
Sponge
Thursday 5th November
Chicken Korma
Toffee Apple Cake &
Custard
Friday 6th November
Battered Fish
Fruit Salad
Monday 19th October Fish Fingers
Jam Roly Poly & Custard
Tuesday 20th October Pasta Bolognaise
Flapjack
Wednesday 21st October
Chicken Pie
Arctic Roll & Peaches
Thursday 22nd October Beef Hot Pot
Biscuit, Cheese & Grapes
Friday 23rd October
Sausage, Potato & Beans
Halloween Biscuits
PTA Update and Forthcoming Party
Sally, Carolyn and myself would like to say a big hello to you all! We are
looking forward to some exciting times ahead with you all in the coming
school year. As always, we welcome any fundraising ideas from you and
volunteers are always welcomed with enthusiasm!
After our first informal meeting on Friday we have a few ideas that we
would like to share with you, the first being an Autumn fancy dress
party. This will be held in school on Friday 23rd October 3.30pm til
6 pm. Please see details on posters around school.
We are also asking for donations of any magazines, as current as possible,
that you have finished with (these can be adults or children's) We aim to
leave these in reception where you may purchase one for £1.50, a great
way to catch up on the latest celebrity gossip, gardening or children's
programmes at a much reduced price!
Finally, any jam jars that you may have, please bring them in! We have
many uses for them and donations throughout the year are appreciated.
Many thanks in advance, Claire Gautam
This is the main choice—there is
a vegetarian option available
every day (as per menus
sent at the start of term)
Football Report
Joey, Lewis, George, Jonny, Thomas, Alfie, Dylan, Corey, Neive and Kitty
all played in a Y3/4 football tournament at Sandylands last Friday. The
first match was 5 nil to us, then the 2nd match was 1 nil to them, 3rd
match was 3 nil to us, 4th match was 4 nil to them and then the 5th
match was 3 nil to us. Overall we came 4th . We were really proud of our
efforts. By Joey Driscoll
Can you Help?
World Prematurity Day is observed on the 17th November to raise
awareness of pre term birth and the care of premature babies world-
wide. Approximately 15 million babies are born prematurely every year, 1
in 10 around the world.
I volunteer on the neo natal unit at Bradford Royal Infirmary on behalf of
Bliss (Bliss.org.uk) and every year on World Prematurity Day we give gifts to
everyone currently spending time on the unit. This includes purple knitted
hats, one for each child. If any of our parents, grandparents or other
family members are a dab hand at knitting and would like to help out I
would be most grateful! I will need the hats for the first week in November
ideally (they must be purple!). If you need a pattern, please visit http://
www.fiberfluxblog.com/2011/02/free-pattern.html?m=1. Thank you.
Claire Gautam
Parking – Collection
Be aware that it is VERY busy at drop off and collection times. Please
consider parking at the village hall and walking up to school.
Assemblies
Next week: Thursday 22nd October it is Willow class assembly at 9am.
Friday 23rd October – achievement assembly, pupils are invited to bring
in something to show and speak about that they have achieved outside
school.
Oak and Willow class had been challenged to write a short story about
space on the back of a postcard. Amber Dobson won 2 tickets to go to
Settle Stories to see Tales from Cosmos—a story that was set in 1910
about a man shot down 9 suns so that we only had un in the whole wide
world. It was great.
Garg
rave C
of E
Prim
ary
School
Thurs
day 1
5th
Octo
ber
2015
Gargrave CE (VC) Primary School, Neville
Road, Gargrave, BD23 3RE
Tel: 01756 749433 Fax: 01756 749463
Email: admin@gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk
Website: www.gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk
See overleaf for
Holly Eyles (super reading)
Lola Dobson (excellent behaviour)
Ayaan Ali (knowing space facts—confident)
Samuel Blackwell (fantastic number task homework)
Lars Keyworth (perseverance with his can work)
Daisy Hill (working hard during paired reading)
Emma Hargraves and Megan Webb (for kindness towards other children)
Ollie Metcalfe (not giving up with his tricky work)
Zara Pratt (expressive brainbuilder work)
Every Child Counts: Every Child Contributes Issue 6
Ellie Addis
Skipping For Schools—Wednesday 21st October
We have invited Sports Skipping for Schools to host an all day skipping coaching
session where our children will have the opportunity to learn a range of skipping
skills. Skipping on a regular basis will help improve general levels of fitness and,
along with the different skipping skills and challenges taught during the day,
children will gain new found confidence in their own physical abilities. Parents are
invited to attend the presentation at the end of the day ay 2.50pm. Ropes will
also be available to buy on the day only at a cost of £4.00 each.
White Ribbons
Vacancy—Midday Supervisor
We are looking for a fun person who can work alongside the lunchtime staff to
ensure a safe, happy and active lunchtime. The person will be fully supported by
the other members of staff—5 hrs per week, working everyday 12.00pm – 1.00pm
Term Time Only. Closing date for applications ~ Friday 6th November 2015. The job
is advertised on the NYCC website or you can obtain an application pack from
school.
Vacancy—Kitchen Assistant
We have a vacancy for a general kitchen assistant to cover long term maternity
leave. It is for 2 hours per day (11.30am-1.30pm). To apply or ask any further
questions, please contact Vivienne Sadler on 07779788585.
Parents evening
Thanks to every parent for attending to discuss the learning of your child. Feed-
back from parents included requests for a maths calculations evening and a
meeting about assessment without levels. We shall arrange both for after half
term, dates to follow. Parents of pupils in years 2 and 6 were given copies of the
criteria for a child to be awarded ‘national standard’. There are higher expecta-
tions on the pupils in all areas of the curriculum. We also had out sample test ma-
terials for both these year groups, these are available on-line – just search for sam-
ple national tests. In the spring term we shall give you more details of the tests and
the teacher assessment.
Clubs
Apologies as a few parents thought that the clubs were on this week, but they
weren’t because of parents’ evenings. They are on next week.
Oak Class
We have had a report of head lice, please check your child's hair and treat. Also
could you bring in an old shirt for the children to wear when they are doing art.
APPLE This week in Apple class we have focused on
Phonics and Maths activities. In our Phonics sessions
we have covered c, ck, and e. The children have
read words and phrases and draw pictures. In
Maths we have worked on weight and counting
and comparing different sets of objects. Thank you
for coming to our parent consultation evenings and we hope you found them useful.
OAK This week Oak class have been working really hard on their grammar and have been
coming up with some fantastic adverbs and adjectives to make sentences more
interesting. We have also focused on using some tricky punctuation; using colons, semi-
colons, bullet points and brackets. We really enjoyed our trip to Ilkley Literary Festival to
listen to Steve Cole talk. He gave the class lots of great ideas for their writing. In maths
we have been thinking about multiples and factors and learning how to recognise a
prime number.
WILLOW
We have been working hard this week on our
place value skills and accuracy when working
with money. Some of us have been ‘purchasing’
sports cars at Willow Class garage and working
out how much we can save. We have also been
developing skills in newspaper writing and using
peer marking to check we have all used
our Top Tips effectively.
BEECH We are really enjoying our work on measuring length this week.
Here are Monty and Minny measuring their playdough ‘snakes’
with their bead strings. We have continued to look at non-fiction
books in literacy and have been labelling features of a fire engine
and writing facts about fire engines and fire fighters. We watched
a very exciting video clip of a fire being put out.
ASH Thank you to everyone that came to Ash class assembly. We really enjoyed sharing all of
our work with you. We worked hard to speak clearly and confidently. In Maths we have
been playing games on the computer to practice our rapid recall of number bonds. We
have been looking at recycling in Science and had lots of ideas about what we could
recycle! Please can I remind all parents that we do not bring toys into school (unless it is
for show and tell—see timetable). We have had lots of upset over toys getting lost or
swapped, so please can you ensure that your children do not bring them.
Lisa’s
Kitchen
Monday 2nd November
Cheese & Tomato Pasta
Syrup Sponge & Custard
Tuesday 3rd November
Meatloaf
Raspberry Bun
Wednesday 4th November
Meat & Potato Pie
Chocolate Mandarin
Sponge
Thursday 5th November
Chicken Korma
Toffee Apple Cake &
Custard
Friday 6th November
Battered Fish
Fruit Salad
Monday 19th October Fish Fingers
Jam Roly Poly & Custard
Tuesday 20th October Pasta Bolognaise
Flapjack
Wednesday 21st October
Chicken Pie
Arctic Roll & Peaches
Thursday 22nd October Beef Hot Pot
Biscuit, Cheese & Grapes
Friday 23rd October
Sausage, Potato & Beans
Halloween Biscuits
PTA Update and Forthcoming Party
Sally, Carolyn and myself would like to say a big hello to you all! We are
looking forward to some exciting times ahead with you all in the coming
school year. As always, we welcome any fundraising ideas from you and
volunteers are always welcomed with enthusiasm!
After our first informal meeting on Friday we have a few ideas that we
would like to share with you, the first being an Autumn fancy dress
party. This will be held in school on Friday 23rd October 3.30pm til
6 pm. Please see details on posters around school.
We are also asking for donations of any magazines, as current as possible,
that you have finished with (these can be adults or children's) We aim to
leave these in reception where you may purchase one for £1.50, a great
way to catch up on the latest celebrity gossip, gardening or children's
programmes at a much reduced price!
Finally, any jam jars that you may have, please bring them in! We have
many uses for them and donations throughout the year are appreciated.
Many thanks in advance, Claire Gautam
This is the main choice—there is
a vegetarian option available
every day (as per menus
sent at the start of term)
Football Report
Joey, Lewis, George, Jonny, Thomas, Alfie, Dylan, Corey, Neive and Kitty
all played in a Y3/4 football tournament at Sandylands last Friday. The
first match was 5 nil to us, then the 2nd match was 1 nil to them, 3rd
match was 3 nil to us, 4th match was 4 nil to them and then the 5th
match was 3 nil to us. Overall we came 4th . We were really proud of our
efforts. By Joey Driscoll
Can you Help?
World Prematurity Day is observed on the 17th November to raise
awareness of pre term birth and the care of premature babies world-
wide. Approximately 15 million babies are born prematurely every year, 1
in 10 around the world.
I volunteer on the neo natal unit at Bradford Royal Infirmary on behalf of
Bliss (Bliss.org.uk) and every year on World Prematurity Day we give gifts to
everyone currently spending time on the unit. This includes purple knitted
hats, one for each child. If any of our parents, grandparents or other
family members are a dab hand at knitting and would like to help out I
would be most grateful! I will need the hats for the first week in November
ideally (they must be purple!). If you need a pattern, please visit http://
www.fiberfluxblog.com/2011/02/free-pattern.html?m=1. Thank you.
Claire Gautam
Parking – Collection
Be aware that it is VERY busy at drop off and collection times. Please
consider parking at the village hall and walking up to school.
Assemblies
Next week: Thursday 22nd October it is Willow class assembly at 9am.
Friday 23rd October – achievement assembly, pupils are invited to bring
in something to show and speak about that they have achieved outside
school.
Oak and Willow class had been challenged to write a short story about
space on the back of a postcard. Amber Dobson won 2 tickets to go to
Settle Stories to see Tales from Cosmos—a story that was set in 1910
about a man shot down 9 suns so that we only had un in the whole wide
world. It was great.
Garg
rave C
of E
Prim
ary
School
Thurs
day 1
5th
Octo
ber
2015
Gargrave CE (VC) Primary School, Neville
Road, Gargrave, BD23 3RE
Tel: 01756 749433 Fax: 01756 749463
Email: admin@gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk
Website: www.gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk
See overleaf for
Holly Eyles (super reading)
Lola Dobson (excellent behaviour)
Ayaan Ali (knowing space facts—confident)
Samuel Blackwell (fantastic number task homework)
Lars Keyworth (perseverance with his can work)
Daisy Hill (working hard during paired reading)
Emma Hargraves and Megan Webb (for kindness towards other children)
Ollie Metcalfe (not giving up with his tricky work)
Zara Pratt (expressive brainbuilder work)
Every Child Counts: Every Child Contributes Issue 6
Joshua Procter (Dad)
Skipping For Schools—Wednesday 21st October
We have invited Sports Skipping for Schools to host an all day skipping coaching
session where our children will have the opportunity to learn a range of skipping
skills. Skipping on a regular basis will help improve general levels of fitness and,
along with the different skipping skills and challenges taught during the day,
children will gain new found confidence in their own physical abilities. Parents are
invited to attend the presentation at the end of the day ay 2.50pm. Ropes will
also be available to buy on the day only at a cost of £4.00 each.
White Ribbons
Vacancy—Midday Supervisor
We are looking for a fun person who can work alongside the lunchtime staff to
ensure a safe, happy and active lunchtime. The person will be fully supported by
the other members of staff—5 hrs per week, working everyday 12.00pm – 1.00pm
Term Time Only. Closing date for applications ~ Friday 6th November 2015. The job
is advertised on the NYCC website or you can obtain an application pack from
school.
Vacancy—Kitchen Assistant
We have a vacancy for a general kitchen assistant to cover long term maternity
leave. It is for 2 hours per day (11.30am-1.30pm). To apply or ask any further
questions, please contact Vivienne Sadler on 07779788585.
Parents evening
Thanks to every parent for attending to discuss the learning of your child. Feed-
back from parents included requests for a maths calculations evening and a
meeting about assessment without levels. We shall arrange both for after half
term, dates to follow. Parents of pupils in years 2 and 6 were given copies of the
criteria for a child to be awarded ‘national standard’. There are higher expecta-
tions on the pupils in all areas of the curriculum. We also had out sample test ma-
terials for both these year groups, these are available on-line – just search for sam-
ple national tests. In the spring term we shall give you more details of the tests and
the teacher assessment.
Clubs
Apologies as a few parents thought that the clubs were on this week, but they
weren’t because of parents’ evenings. They are on next week.
Oak Class
We have had a report of head lice, please check your child's hair and treat. Also
could you bring in an old shirt for the children to wear when they are doing art.
APPLE This week in Apple class we have focused on
Phonics and Maths activities. In our Phonics sessions
we have covered c, ck, and e. The children have
read words and phrases and draw pictures. In
Maths we have worked on weight and counting
and comparing different sets of objects. Thank you
for coming to our parent consultation evenings and we hope you found them useful.
OAK This week Oak class have been working really hard on their grammar and have been
coming up with some fantastic adverbs and adjectives to make sentences more
interesting. We have also focused on using some tricky punctuation; using colons, semi-
colons, bullet points and brackets. We really enjoyed our trip to Ilkley Literary Festival to
listen to Steve Cole talk. He gave the class lots of great ideas for their writing. In maths
we have been thinking about multiples and factors and learning how to recognise a
prime number.
WILLOW
We have been working hard this week on our
place value skills and accuracy when working
with money. Some of us have been ‘purchasing’
sports cars at Willow Class garage and working
out how much we can save. We have also been
developing skills in newspaper writing and using
peer marking to check we have all used
our Top Tips effectively.
BEECH We are really enjoying our work on measuring length this week.
Here are Monty and Minny measuring their playdough ‘snakes’
with their bead strings. We have continued to look at non-fiction
books in literacy and have been labelling features of a fire engine
and writing facts about fire engines and fire fighters. We watched
a very exciting video clip of a fire being put out.
ASH Thank you to everyone that came to Ash class assembly. We really enjoyed sharing all of
our work with you. We worked hard to speak clearly and confidently. In Maths we have
been playing games on the computer to practice our rapid recall of number bonds. We
have been looking at recycling in Science and had lots of ideas about what we could
recycle! Please can I remind all parents that we do not bring toys into school (unless it is
for show and tell—see timetable). We have had lots of upset over toys getting lost or
swapped, so please can you ensure that your children do not bring them.
Lisa’s
Kitchen
Monday 2nd November
Cheese & Tomato Pasta
Syrup Sponge & Custard
Tuesday 3rd November
Meatloaf
Raspberry Bun
Wednesday 4th November
Meat & Potato Pie
Chocolate Mandarin
Sponge
Thursday 5th November
Chicken Korma
Toffee Apple Cake &
Custard
Friday 6th November
Battered Fish
Fruit Salad
Monday 19th October Fish Fingers
Jam Roly Poly & Custard
Tuesday 20th October Pasta Bolognaise
Flapjack
Wednesday 21st October
Chicken Pie
Arctic Roll & Peaches
Thursday 22nd October Beef Hot Pot
Biscuit, Cheese & Grapes
Friday 23rd October
Sausage, Potato & Beans
Halloween Biscuits
PTA Update and Forthcoming Party
Sally, Carolyn and myself would like to say a big hello to you all! We are
looking forward to some exciting times ahead with you all in the coming
school year. As always, we welcome any fundraising ideas from you and
volunteers are always welcomed with enthusiasm!
After our first informal meeting on Friday we have a few ideas that we
would like to share with you, the first being an Autumn fancy dress
party. This will be held in school on Friday 23rd October 3.30pm til
6 pm. Please see details on posters around school.
We are also asking for donations of any magazines, as current as possible,
that you have finished with (these can be adults or children's) We aim to
leave these in reception where you may purchase one for £1.50, a great
way to catch up on the latest celebrity gossip, gardening or children's
programmes at a much reduced price!
Finally, any jam jars that you may have, please bring them in! We have
many uses for them and donations throughout the year are appreciated.
Many thanks in advance, Claire Gautam
This is the main choice—there is
a vegetarian option available
every day (as per menus
sent at the start of term)
Football Report
Joey, Lewis, George, Jonny, Thomas, Alfie, Dylan, Corey, Neive and Kitty
all played in a Y3/4 football tournament at Sandylands last Friday. The
first match was 5 nil to us, then the 2nd match was 1 nil to them, 3rd
match was 3 nil to us, 4th match was 4 nil to them and then the 5th
match was 3 nil to us. Overall we came 4th . We were really proud of our
efforts. By Joey Driscoll
Can you Help?
World Prematurity Day is observed on the 17th November to raise
awareness of pre term birth and the care of premature babies world-
wide. Approximately 15 million babies are born prematurely every year, 1
in 10 around the world.
I volunteer on the neo natal unit at Bradford Royal Infirmary on behalf of
Bliss (Bliss.org.uk) and every year on World Prematurity Day we give gifts to
everyone currently spending time on the unit. This includes purple knitted
hats, one for each child. If any of our parents, grandparents or other
family members are a dab hand at knitting and would like to help out I
would be most grateful! I will need the hats for the first week in November
ideally (they must be purple!). If you need a pattern, please visit http://
www.fiberfluxblog.com/2011/02/free-pattern.html?m=1. Thank you.
Claire Gautam
Parking – Collection
Be aware that it is VERY busy at drop off and collection times. Please
consider parking at the village hall and walking up to school.
Assemblies
Next week: Thursday 22nd October it is Willow class assembly at 9am.
Friday 23rd October – achievement assembly, pupils are invited to bring
in something to show and speak about that they have achieved outside
school.
Oak and Willow class had been challenged to write a short story about
space on the back of a postcard. Amber Dobson won 2 tickets to go to
Settle Stories to see Tales from Cosmos—a story that was set in 1910
about a man shot down 9 suns so that we only had un in the whole wide
world. It was great.
Garg
rave C
of E
Prim
ary
School
Thurs
day 1
5th
Octo
ber
2015
Gargrave CE (VC) Primary School, Neville
Road, Gargrave, BD23 3RE
Tel: 01756 749433 Fax: 01756 749463
Email: admin@gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk
Website: www.gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk
See overleaf for
Holly Eyles (super reading)
Lola Dobson (excellent behaviour)
Ayaan Ali (knowing space facts—confident)
Samuel Blackwell (fantastic number task homework)
Lars Keyworth (perseverance with his can work)
Daisy Hill (working hard during paired reading)
Emma Hargraves and Megan Webb (for kindness towards other children)
Ollie Metcalfe (not giving up with his tricky work)
Zara Pratt (expressive brainbuilder work)
Every Child Counts: Every Child Contributes Issue 6
Lars Keyworth
Skipping For Schools—Wednesday 21st October
We have invited Sports Skipping for Schools to host an all day skipping coaching
session where our children will have the opportunity to learn a range of skipping
skills. Skipping on a regular basis will help improve general levels of fitness and,
along with the different skipping skills and challenges taught during the day,
children will gain new found confidence in their own physical abilities. Parents are
invited to attend the presentation at the end of the day ay 2.50pm. Ropes will
also be available to buy on the day only at a cost of £4.00 each.
White Ribbons
Vacancy—Midday Supervisor
We are looking for a fun person who can work alongside the lunchtime staff to
ensure a safe, happy and active lunchtime. The person will be fully supported by
the other members of staff—5 hrs per week, working everyday 12.00pm – 1.00pm
Term Time Only. Closing date for applications ~ Friday 6th November 2015. The job
is advertised on the NYCC website or you can obtain an application pack from
school.
Vacancy—Kitchen Assistant
We have a vacancy for a general kitchen assistant to cover long term maternity
leave. It is for 2 hours per day (11.30am-1.30pm). To apply or ask any further
questions, please contact Vivienne Sadler on 07779788585.
Parents evening
Thanks to every parent for attending to discuss the learning of your child. Feed-
back from parents included requests for a maths calculations evening and a
meeting about assessment without levels. We shall arrange both for after half
term, dates to follow. Parents of pupils in years 2 and 6 were given copies of the
criteria for a child to be awarded ‘national standard’. There are higher expecta-
tions on the pupils in all areas of the curriculum. We also had out sample test ma-
terials for both these year groups, these are available on-line – just search for sam-
ple national tests. In the spring term we shall give you more details of the tests and
the teacher assessment.
Clubs
Apologies as a few parents thought that the clubs were on this week, but they
weren’t because of parents’ evenings. They are on next week.
Oak Class
We have had a report of head lice, please check your child's hair and treat. Also
could you bring in an old shirt for the children to wear when they are doing art.
APPLE This week in Apple class we have focused on
Phonics and Maths activities. In our Phonics sessions
we have covered c, ck, and e. The children have
read words and phrases and draw pictures. In
Maths we have worked on weight and counting
and comparing different sets of objects. Thank you
for coming to our parent consultation evenings and we hope you found them useful.
OAK This week Oak class have been working really hard on their grammar and have been
coming up with some fantastic adverbs and adjectives to make sentences more
interesting. We have also focused on using some tricky punctuation; using colons, semi-
colons, bullet points and brackets. We really enjoyed our trip to Ilkley Literary Festival to
listen to Steve Cole talk. He gave the class lots of great ideas for their writing. In maths
we have been thinking about multiples and factors and learning how to recognise a
prime number.
WILLOW
We have been working hard this week on our
place value skills and accuracy when working
with money. Some of us have been ‘purchasing’
sports cars at Willow Class garage and working
out how much we can save. We have also been
developing skills in newspaper writing and using
peer marking to check we have all used
our Top Tips effectively.
BEECH We are really enjoying our work on measuring length this week.
Here are Monty and Minny measuring their playdough ‘snakes’
with their bead strings. We have continued to look at non-fiction
books in literacy and have been labelling features of a fire engine
and writing facts about fire engines and fire fighters. We watched
a very exciting video clip of a fire being put out.
ASH Thank you to everyone that came to Ash class assembly. We really enjoyed sharing all of
our work with you. We worked hard to speak clearly and confidently. In Maths we have
been playing games on the computer to practice our rapid recall of number bonds. We
have been looking at recycling in Science and had lots of ideas about what we could
recycle! Please can I remind all parents that we do not bring toys into school (unless it is
for show and tell—see timetable). We have had lots of upset over toys getting lost or
swapped, so please can you ensure that your children do not bring them.
Lisa’s
Kitchen
Monday 2nd November
Cheese & Tomato Pasta
Syrup Sponge & Custard
Tuesday 3rd November
Meatloaf
Raspberry Bun
Wednesday 4th November
Meat & Potato Pie
Chocolate Mandarin
Sponge
Thursday 5th November
Chicken Korma
Toffee Apple Cake &
Custard
Friday 6th November
Battered Fish
Fruit Salad
Monday 19th October Fish Fingers
Jam Roly Poly & Custard
Tuesday 20th October Pasta Bolognaise
Flapjack
Wednesday 21st October
Chicken Pie
Arctic Roll & Peaches
Thursday 22nd October Beef Hot Pot
Biscuit, Cheese & Grapes
Friday 23rd October
Sausage, Potato & Beans
Halloween Biscuits
PTA Update and Forthcoming Party
Sally, Carolyn and myself would like to say a big hello to you all! We are
looking forward to some exciting times ahead with you all in the coming
school year. As always, we welcome any fundraising ideas from you and
volunteers are always welcomed with enthusiasm!
After our first informal meeting on Friday we have a few ideas that we
would like to share with you, the first being an Autumn fancy dress
party. This will be held in school on Friday 23rd October 3.30pm til
6 pm. Please see details on posters around school.
We are also asking for donations of any magazines, as current as possible,
that you have finished with (these can be adults or children's) We aim to
leave these in reception where you may purchase one for £1.50, a great
way to catch up on the latest celebrity gossip, gardening or children's
programmes at a much reduced price!
Finally, any jam jars that you may have, please bring them in! We have
many uses for them and donations throughout the year are appreciated.
Many thanks in advance, Claire Gautam
This is the main choice—there is
a vegetarian option available
every day (as per menus
sent at the start of term)
Football Report
Joey, Lewis, George, Jonny, Thomas, Alfie, Dylan, Corey, Neive and Kitty
all played in a Y3/4 football tournament at Sandylands last Friday. The
first match was 5 nil to us, then the 2nd match was 1 nil to them, 3rd
match was 3 nil to us, 4th match was 4 nil to them and then the 5th
match was 3 nil to us. Overall we came 4th . We were really proud of our
efforts. By Joey Driscoll
Can you Help?
World Prematurity Day is observed on the 17th November to raise
awareness of pre term birth and the care of premature babies world-
wide. Approximately 15 million babies are born prematurely every year, 1
in 10 around the world.
I volunteer on the neo natal unit at Bradford Royal Infirmary on behalf of
Bliss (Bliss.org.uk) and every year on World Prematurity Day we give gifts to
everyone currently spending time on the unit. This includes purple knitted
hats, one for each child. If any of our parents, grandparents or other
family members are a dab hand at knitting and would like to help out I
would be most grateful! I will need the hats for the first week in November
ideally (they must be purple!). If you need a pattern, please visit http://
www.fiberfluxblog.com/2011/02/free-pattern.html?m=1. Thank you.
Claire Gautam
Parking – Collection
Be aware that it is VERY busy at drop off and collection times. Please
consider parking at the village hall and walking up to school.
Assemblies
Next week: Thursday 22nd October it is Willow class assembly at 9am.
Friday 23rd October – achievement assembly, pupils are invited to bring
in something to show and speak about that they have achieved outside
school.
Oak and Willow class had been challenged to write a short story about
space on the back of a postcard. Amber Dobson won 2 tickets to go to
Settle Stories to see Tales from Cosmos—a story that was set in 1910
about a man shot down 9 suns so that we only had un in the whole wide
world. It was great.
Garg
rave C
of E
Prim
ary
School
Thurs
day 1
5th
Octo
ber
2015
Gargrave CE (VC) Primary School, Neville
Road, Gargrave, BD23 3RE
Tel: 01756 749433 Fax: 01756 749463
Email: admin@gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk
Website: www.gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk
See overleaf for
Holly Eyles (super reading)
Lola Dobson (excellent behaviour)
Ayaan Ali (knowing space facts—confident)
Samuel Blackwell (fantastic number task homework)
Lars Keyworth (perseverance with his can work)
Daisy Hill (working hard during paired reading)
Emma Hargraves and Megan Webb (for kindness towards other children)
Ollie Metcalfe (not giving up with his tricky work)
Zara Pratt (expressive brainbuilder work)
Every Child Counts: Every Child Contributes Issue 6
Samuel Blackwell
Skipping For Schools—Wednesday 21st October
We have invited Sports Skipping for Schools to host an all day skipping coaching
session where our children will have the opportunity to learn a range of skipping
skills. Skipping on a regular basis will help improve general levels of fitness and,
along with the different skipping skills and challenges taught during the day,
children will gain new found confidence in their own physical abilities. Parents are
invited to attend the presentation at the end of the day ay 2.50pm. Ropes will
also be available to buy on the day only at a cost of £4.00 each.
White Ribbons
Vacancy—Midday Supervisor
We are looking for a fun person who can work alongside the lunchtime staff to
ensure a safe, happy and active lunchtime. The person will be fully supported by
the other members of staff—5 hrs per week, working everyday 12.00pm – 1.00pm
Term Time Only. Closing date for applications ~ Friday 6th November 2015. The job
is advertised on the NYCC website or you can obtain an application pack from
school.
Vacancy—Kitchen Assistant
We have a vacancy for a general kitchen assistant to cover long term maternity
leave. It is for 2 hours per day (11.30am-1.30pm). To apply or ask any further
questions, please contact Vivienne Sadler on 07779788585.
Parents evening
Thanks to every parent for attending to discuss the learning of your child. Feed-
back from parents included requests for a maths calculations evening and a
meeting about assessment without levels. We shall arrange both for after half
term, dates to follow. Parents of pupils in years 2 and 6 were given copies of the
criteria for a child to be awarded ‘national standard’. There are higher expecta-
tions on the pupils in all areas of the curriculum. We also had out sample test ma-
terials for both these year groups, these are available on-line – just search for sam-
ple national tests. In the spring term we shall give you more details of the tests and
the teacher assessment.
Clubs
Apologies as a few parents thought that the clubs were on this week, but they
weren’t because of parents’ evenings. They are on next week.
Oak Class
We have had a report of head lice, please check your child's hair and treat. Also
could you bring in an old shirt for the children to wear when they are doing art.
APPLE This week in Apple class we have focused on
Phonics and Maths activities. In our Phonics sessions
we have covered c, ck, and e. The children have
read words and phrases and draw pictures. In
Maths we have worked on weight and counting
and comparing different sets of objects. Thank you
for coming to our parent consultation evenings and we hope you found them useful.
OAK This week Oak class have been working really hard on their grammar and have been
coming up with some fantastic adverbs and adjectives to make sentences more
interesting. We have also focused on using some tricky punctuation; using colons, semi-
colons, bullet points and brackets. We really enjoyed our trip to Ilkley Literary Festival to
listen to Steve Cole talk. He gave the class lots of great ideas for their writing. In maths
we have been thinking about multiples and factors and learning how to recognise a
prime number.
WILLOW
We have been working hard this week on our
place value skills and accuracy when working
with money. Some of us have been ‘purchasing’
sports cars at Willow Class garage and working
out how much we can save. We have also been
developing skills in newspaper writing and using
peer marking to check we have all used
our Top Tips effectively.
BEECH We are really enjoying our work on measuring length this week.
Here are Monty and Minny measuring their playdough ‘snakes’
with their bead strings. We have continued to look at non-fiction
books in literacy and have been labelling features of a fire engine
and writing facts about fire engines and fire fighters. We watched
a very exciting video clip of a fire being put out.
ASH Thank you to everyone that came to Ash class assembly. We really enjoyed sharing all of
our work with you. We worked hard to speak clearly and confidently. In Maths we have
been playing games on the computer to practice our rapid recall of number bonds. We
have been looking at recycling in Science and had lots of ideas about what we could
recycle! Please can I remind all parents that we do not bring toys into school (unless it is
for show and tell—see timetable). We have had lots of upset over toys getting lost or
swapped, so please can you ensure that your children do not bring them.
Lisa’s
Kitchen
Monday 2nd November
Cheese & Tomato Pasta
Syrup Sponge & Custard
Tuesday 3rd November
Meatloaf
Raspberry Bun
Wednesday 4th November
Meat & Potato Pie
Chocolate Mandarin
Sponge
Thursday 5th November
Chicken Korma
Toffee Apple Cake &
Custard
Friday 6th November
Battered Fish
Fruit Salad
Monday 19th October Fish Fingers
Jam Roly Poly & Custard
Tuesday 20th October Pasta Bolognaise
Flapjack
Wednesday 21st October
Chicken Pie
Arctic Roll & Peaches
Thursday 22nd October Beef Hot Pot
Biscuit, Cheese & Grapes
Friday 23rd October
Sausage, Potato & Beans
Halloween Biscuits
PTA Update and Forthcoming Party
Sally, Carolyn and myself would like to say a big hello to you all! We are
looking forward to some exciting times ahead with you all in the coming
school year. As always, we welcome any fundraising ideas from you and
volunteers are always welcomed with enthusiasm!
After our first informal meeting on Friday we have a few ideas that we
would like to share with you, the first being an Autumn fancy dress
party. This will be held in school on Friday 23rd October 3.30pm til
6 pm. Please see details on posters around school.
We are also asking for donations of any magazines, as current as possible,
that you have finished with (these can be adults or children's) We aim to
leave these in reception where you may purchase one for £1.50, a great
way to catch up on the latest celebrity gossip, gardening or children's
programmes at a much reduced price!
Finally, any jam jars that you may have, please bring them in! We have
many uses for them and donations throughout the year are appreciated.
Many thanks in advance, Claire Gautam
This is the main choice—there is
a vegetarian option available
every day (as per menus
sent at the start of term)
Football Report
Joey, Lewis, George, Jonny, Thomas, Alfie, Dylan, Corey, Neive and Kitty
all played in a Y3/4 football tournament at Sandylands last Friday. The
first match was 5 nil to us, then the 2nd match was 1 nil to them, 3rd
match was 3 nil to us, 4th match was 4 nil to them and then the 5th
match was 3 nil to us. Overall we came 4th . We were really proud of our
efforts. By Joey Driscoll
Can you Help?
World Prematurity Day is observed on the 17th November to raise
awareness of pre term birth and the care of premature babies world-
wide. Approximately 15 million babies are born prematurely every year, 1
in 10 around the world.
I volunteer on the neo natal unit at Bradford Royal Infirmary on behalf of
Bliss (Bliss.org.uk) and every year on World Prematurity Day we give gifts to
everyone currently spending time on the unit. This includes purple knitted
hats, one for each child. If any of our parents, grandparents or other
family members are a dab hand at knitting and would like to help out I
would be most grateful! I will need the hats for the first week in November
ideally (they must be purple!). If you need a pattern, please visit http://
www.fiberfluxblog.com/2011/02/free-pattern.html?m=1. Thank you.
Claire Gautam
Parking – Collection
Be aware that it is VERY busy at drop off and collection times. Please
consider parking at the village hall and walking up to school.
Assemblies
Next week: Thursday 22nd October it is Willow class assembly at 9am.
Friday 23rd October – achievement assembly, pupils are invited to bring
in something to show and speak about that they have achieved outside
school.
Oak and Willow class had been challenged to write a short story about
space on the back of a postcard. Amber Dobson won 2 tickets to go to
Settle Stories to see Tales from Cosmos—a story that was set in 1910
about a man shot down 9 suns so that we only had un in the whole wide
world. It was great.
Garg
rave C
of E
Prim
ary
School
Thurs
day 1
5th
Octo
ber
2015
Gargrave CE (VC) Primary School, Neville
Road, Gargrave, BD23 3RE
Tel: 01756 749433 Fax: 01756 749463
Email: admin@gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk
Website: www.gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk
See overleaf for
Holly Eyles (super reading)
Lola Dobson (excellent behaviour)
Ayaan Ali (knowing space facts—confident)
Samuel Blackwell (fantastic number task homework)
Lars Keyworth (perseverance with his can work)
Daisy Hill (working hard during paired reading)
Emma Hargraves and Megan Webb (for kindness towards other children)
Ollie Metcalfe (not giving up with his tricky work)
Zara Pratt (expressive brainbuilder work)
Every Child Counts: Every Child Contributes Issue 6
Tyler & Aston Nutter-Moon
Skipping For Schools—Wednesday 21st October
We have invited Sports Skipping for Schools to host an all day skipping coaching
session where our children will have the opportunity to learn a range of skipping
skills. Skipping on a regular basis will help improve general levels of fitness and,
along with the different skipping skills and challenges taught during the day,
children will gain new found confidence in their own physical abilities. Parents are
invited to attend the presentation at the end of the day ay 2.50pm. Ropes will
also be available to buy on the day only at a cost of £4.00 each.
White Ribbons
Vacancy—Midday Supervisor
We are looking for a fun person who can work alongside the lunchtime staff to
ensure a safe, happy and active lunchtime. The person will be fully supported by
the other members of staff—5 hrs per week, working everyday 12.00pm – 1.00pm
Term Time Only. Closing date for applications ~ Friday 6th November 2015. The job
is advertised on the NYCC website or you can obtain an application pack from
school.
Vacancy—Kitchen Assistant
We have a vacancy for a general kitchen assistant to cover long term maternity
leave. It is for 2 hours per day (11.30am-1.30pm). To apply or ask any further
questions, please contact Vivienne Sadler on 07779788585.
Parents evening
Thanks to every parent for attending to discuss the learning of your child. Feed-
back from parents included requests for a maths calculations evening and a
meeting about assessment without levels. We shall arrange both for after half
term, dates to follow. Parents of pupils in years 2 and 6 were given copies of the
criteria for a child to be awarded ‘national standard’. There are higher expecta-
tions on the pupils in all areas of the curriculum. We also had out sample test ma-
terials for both these year groups, these are available on-line – just search for sam-
ple national tests. In the spring term we shall give you more details of the tests and
the teacher assessment.
Clubs
Apologies as a few parents thought that the clubs were on this week, but they
weren’t because of parents’ evenings. They are on next week.
Oak Class
We have had a report of head lice, please check your child's hair and treat. Also
could you bring in an old shirt for the children to wear when they are doing art.
APPLE This week in Apple class we have focused on
Phonics and Maths activities. In our Phonics sessions
we have covered c, ck, and e. The children have
read words and phrases and draw pictures. In
Maths we have worked on weight and counting
and comparing different sets of objects. Thank you
for coming to our parent consultation evenings and we hope you found them useful.
OAK This week Oak class have been working really hard on their grammar and have been
coming up with some fantastic adverbs and adjectives to make sentences more
interesting. We have also focused on using some tricky punctuation; using colons, semi-
colons, bullet points and brackets. We really enjoyed our trip to Ilkley Literary Festival to
listen to Steve Cole talk. He gave the class lots of great ideas for their writing. In maths
we have been thinking about multiples and factors and learning how to recognise a
prime number.
WILLOW
We have been working hard this week on our
place value skills and accuracy when working
with money. Some of us have been ‘purchasing’
sports cars at Willow Class garage and working
out how much we can save. We have also been
developing skills in newspaper writing and using
peer marking to check we have all used
our Top Tips effectively.
BEECH We are really enjoying our work on measuring length this week.
Here are Monty and Minny measuring their playdough ‘snakes’
with their bead strings. We have continued to look at non-fiction
books in literacy and have been labelling features of a fire engine
and writing facts about fire engines and fire fighters. We watched
a very exciting video clip of a fire being put out.
ASH Thank you to everyone that came to Ash class assembly. We really enjoyed sharing all of
our work with you. We worked hard to speak clearly and confidently. In Maths we have
been playing games on the computer to practice our rapid recall of number bonds. We
have been looking at recycling in Science and had lots of ideas about what we could
recycle! Please can I remind all parents that we do not bring toys into school (unless it is
for show and tell—see timetable). We have had lots of upset over toys getting lost or
swapped, so please can you ensure that your children do not bring them.
Lisa’s
Kitchen
Monday 2nd November
Cheese & Tomato Pasta
Syrup Sponge & Custard
Tuesday 3rd November
Meatloaf
Raspberry Bun
Wednesday 4th November
Meat & Potato Pie
Chocolate Mandarin
Sponge
Thursday 5th November
Chicken Korma
Toffee Apple Cake &
Custard
Friday 6th November
Battered Fish
Fruit Salad
Monday 19th October Fish Fingers
Jam Roly Poly & Custard
Tuesday 20th October Pasta Bolognaise
Flapjack
Wednesday 21st October
Chicken Pie
Arctic Roll & Peaches
Thursday 22nd October Beef Hot Pot
Biscuit, Cheese & Grapes
Friday 23rd October
Sausage, Potato & Beans
Halloween Biscuits
PTA Update and Forthcoming Party
Sally, Carolyn and myself would like to say a big hello to you all! We are
looking forward to some exciting times ahead with you all in the coming
school year. As always, we welcome any fundraising ideas from you and
volunteers are always welcomed with enthusiasm!
After our first informal meeting on Friday we have a few ideas that we
would like to share with you, the first being an Autumn fancy dress
party. This will be held in school on Friday 23rd October 3.30pm til
6 pm. Please see details on posters around school.
We are also asking for donations of any magazines, as current as possible,
that you have finished with (these can be adults or children's) We aim to
leave these in reception where you may purchase one for £1.50, a great
way to catch up on the latest celebrity gossip, gardening or children's
programmes at a much reduced price!
Finally, any jam jars that you may have, please bring them in! We have
many uses for them and donations throughout the year are appreciated.
Many thanks in advance, Claire Gautam
This is the main choice—there is
a vegetarian option available
every day (as per menus
sent at the start of term)
Football Report
Joey, Lewis, George, Jonny, Thomas, Alfie, Dylan, Corey, Neive and Kitty
all played in a Y3/4 football tournament at Sandylands last Friday. The
first match was 5 nil to us, then the 2nd match was 1 nil to them, 3rd
match was 3 nil to us, 4th match was 4 nil to them and then the 5th
match was 3 nil to us. Overall we came 4th . We were really proud of our
efforts. By Joey Driscoll
Can you Help?
World Prematurity Day is observed on the 17th November to raise
awareness of pre term birth and the care of premature babies world-
wide. Approximately 15 million babies are born prematurely every year, 1
in 10 around the world.
I volunteer on the neo natal unit at Bradford Royal Infirmary on behalf of
Bliss (Bliss.org.uk) and every year on World Prematurity Day we give gifts to
everyone currently spending time on the unit. This includes purple knitted
hats, one for each child. If any of our parents, grandparents or other
family members are a dab hand at knitting and would like to help out I
would be most grateful! I will need the hats for the first week in November
ideally (they must be purple!). If you need a pattern, please visit http://
www.fiberfluxblog.com/2011/02/free-pattern.html?m=1. Thank you.
Claire Gautam
Parking – Collection
Be aware that it is VERY busy at drop off and collection times. Please
consider parking at the village hall and walking up to school.
Assemblies
Next week: Thursday 22nd October it is Willow class assembly at 9am.
Friday 23rd October – achievement assembly, pupils are invited to bring
in something to show and speak about that they have achieved outside
school.
Oak and Willow class had been challenged to write a short story about
space on the back of a postcard. Amber Dobson won 2 tickets to go to
Settle Stories to see Tales from Cosmos—a story that was set in 1910
about a man shot down 9 suns so that we only had un in the whole wide
world. It was great.
Garg
rave C
of E
Prim
ary
School
Thurs
day 1
5th
Octo
ber
2015
Gargrave CE (VC) Primary School, Neville
Road, Gargrave, BD23 3RE
Tel: 01756 749433 Fax: 01756 749463
Email: admin@gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk
Website: www.gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk
See overleaf for
Holly Eyles (super reading)
Lola Dobson (excellent behaviour)
Ayaan Ali (knowing space facts—confident)
Samuel Blackwell (fantastic number task homework)
Lars Keyworth (perseverance with his can work)
Daisy Hill (working hard during paired reading)
Emma Hargraves and Megan Webb (for kindness towards other children)
Ollie Metcalfe (not giving up with his tricky work)
Zara Pratt (expressive brainbuilder work)
Every Child Counts: Every Child Contributes Issue 6
Wyatt Robinson
Skipping For Schools—Wednesday 21st October
We have invited Sports Skipping for Schools to host an all day skipping coaching
session where our children will have the opportunity to learn a range of skipping
skills. Skipping on a regular basis will help improve general levels of fitness and,
along with the different skipping skills and challenges taught during the day,
children will gain new found confidence in their own physical abilities. Parents are
invited to attend the presentation at the end of the day ay 2.50pm. Ropes will
also be available to buy on the day only at a cost of £4.00 each.
White Ribbons
Vacancy—Midday Supervisor
We are looking for a fun person who can work alongside the lunchtime staff to
ensure a safe, happy and active lunchtime. The person will be fully supported by
the other members of staff—5 hrs per week, working everyday 12.00pm – 1.00pm
Term Time Only. Closing date for applications ~ Friday 6th November 2015. The job
is advertised on the NYCC website or you can obtain an application pack from
school.
Vacancy—Kitchen Assistant
We have a vacancy for a general kitchen assistant to cover long term maternity
leave. It is for 2 hours per day (11.30am-1.30pm). To apply or ask any further
questions, please contact Vivienne Sadler on 07779788585.
Parents evening
Thanks to every parent for attending to discuss the learning of your child. Feed-
back from parents included requests for a maths calculations evening and a
meeting about assessment without levels. We shall arrange both for after half
term, dates to follow. Parents of pupils in years 2 and 6 were given copies of the
criteria for a child to be awarded ‘national standard’. There are higher expecta-
tions on the pupils in all areas of the curriculum. We also had out sample test ma-
terials for both these year groups, these are available on-line – just search for sam-
ple national tests. In the spring term we shall give you more details of the tests and
the teacher assessment.
Clubs
Apologies as a few parents thought that the clubs were on this week, but they
weren’t because of parents’ evenings. They are on next week.
Oak Class
We have had a report of head lice, please check your child's hair and treat. Also
could you bring in an old shirt for the children to wear when they are doing art.
APPLE This week in Apple class we have focused on
Phonics and Maths activities. In our Phonics sessions
we have covered c, ck, and e. The children have
read words and phrases and draw pictures. In
Maths we have worked on weight and counting
and comparing different sets of objects. Thank you
for coming to our parent consultation evenings and we hope you found them useful.
OAK This week Oak class have been working really hard on their grammar and have been
coming up with some fantastic adverbs and adjectives to make sentences more
interesting. We have also focused on using some tricky punctuation; using colons, semi-
colons, bullet points and brackets. We really enjoyed our trip to Ilkley Literary Festival to
listen to Steve Cole talk. He gave the class lots of great ideas for their writing. In maths
we have been thinking about multiples and factors and learning how to recognise a
prime number.
WILLOW
We have been working hard this week on our
place value skills and accuracy when working
with money. Some of us have been ‘purchasing’
sports cars at Willow Class garage and working
out how much we can save. We have also been
developing skills in newspaper writing and using
peer marking to check we have all used
our Top Tips effectively.
BEECH We are really enjoying our work on measuring length this week.
Here are Monty and Minny measuring their playdough ‘snakes’
with their bead strings. We have continued to look at non-fiction
books in literacy and have been labelling features of a fire engine
and writing facts about fire engines and fire fighters. We watched
a very exciting video clip of a fire being put out.
ASH Thank you to everyone that came to Ash class assembly. We really enjoyed sharing all of
our work with you. We worked hard to speak clearly and confidently. In Maths we have
been playing games on the computer to practice our rapid recall of number bonds. We
have been looking at recycling in Science and had lots of ideas about what we could
recycle! Please can I remind all parents that we do not bring toys into school (unless it is
for show and tell—see timetable). We have had lots of upset over toys getting lost or
swapped, so please can you ensure that your children do not bring them.
Lisa’s
Kitchen
Monday 2nd November
Cheese & Tomato Pasta
Syrup Sponge & Custard
Tuesday 3rd November
Meatloaf
Raspberry Bun
Wednesday 4th November
Meat & Potato Pie
Chocolate Mandarin
Sponge
Thursday 5th November
Chicken Korma
Toffee Apple Cake &
Custard
Friday 6th November
Battered Fish
Fruit Salad
Monday 19th October Fish Fingers
Jam Roly Poly & Custard
Tuesday 20th October Pasta Bolognaise
Flapjack
Wednesday 21st October
Chicken Pie
Arctic Roll & Peaches
Thursday 22nd October Beef Hot Pot
Biscuit, Cheese & Grapes
Friday 23rd October
Sausage, Potato & Beans
Halloween Biscuits
PTA Update and Forthcoming Party
Sally, Carolyn and myself would like to say a big hello to you all! We are
looking forward to some exciting times ahead with you all in the coming
school year. As always, we welcome any fundraising ideas from you and
volunteers are always welcomed with enthusiasm!
After our first informal meeting on Friday we have a few ideas that we
would like to share with you, the first being an Autumn fancy dress
party. This will be held in school on Friday 23rd October 3.30pm til
6 pm. Please see details on posters around school.
We are also asking for donations of any magazines, as current as possible,
that you have finished with (these can be adults or children's) We aim to
leave these in reception where you may purchase one for £1.50, a great
way to catch up on the latest celebrity gossip, gardening or children's
programmes at a much reduced price!
Finally, any jam jars that you may have, please bring them in! We have
many uses for them and donations throughout the year are appreciated.
Many thanks in advance, Claire Gautam
This is the main choice—there is
a vegetarian option available
every day (as per menus
sent at the start of term)
Football Report
Joey, Lewis, George, Jonny, Thomas, Alfie, Dylan, Corey, Neive and Kitty
all played in a Y3/4 football tournament at Sandylands last Friday. The
first match was 5 nil to us, then the 2nd match was 1 nil to them, 3rd
match was 3 nil to us, 4th match was 4 nil to them and then the 5th
match was 3 nil to us. Overall we came 4th . We were really proud of our
efforts. By Joey Driscoll
Can you Help?
World Prematurity Day is observed on the 17th November to raise
awareness of pre term birth and the care of premature babies world-
wide. Approximately 15 million babies are born prematurely every year, 1
in 10 around the world.
I volunteer on the neo natal unit at Bradford Royal Infirmary on behalf of
Bliss (Bliss.org.uk) and every year on World Prematurity Day we give gifts to
everyone currently spending time on the unit. This includes purple knitted
hats, one for each child. If any of our parents, grandparents or other
family members are a dab hand at knitting and would like to help out I
would be most grateful! I will need the hats for the first week in November
ideally (they must be purple!). If you need a pattern, please visit http://
www.fiberfluxblog.com/2011/02/free-pattern.html?m=1. Thank you.
Claire Gautam
Parking – Collection
Be aware that it is VERY busy at drop off and collection times. Please
consider parking at the village hall and walking up to school.
Assemblies
Next week: Thursday 22nd October it is Willow class assembly at 9am.
Friday 23rd October – achievement assembly, pupils are invited to bring
in something to show and speak about that they have achieved outside
school.
Oak and Willow class had been challenged to write a short story about
space on the back of a postcard. Amber Dobson won 2 tickets to go to
Settle Stories to see Tales from Cosmos—a story that was set in 1910
about a man shot down 9 suns so that we only had un in the whole wide
world. It was great.
Garg
rave C
of E
Prim
ary
School
Thurs
day 1
5th
Octo
ber
2015
Gargrave CE (VC) Primary School, Neville
Road, Gargrave, BD23 3RE
Tel: 01756 749433 Fax: 01756 749463
Email: admin@gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk
Website: www.gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk
See overleaf for
Holly Eyles (super reading)
Lola Dobson (excellent behaviour)
Ayaan Ali (knowing space facts—confident)
Samuel Blackwell (fantastic number task homework)
Lars Keyworth (perseverance with his can work)
Daisy Hill (working hard during paired reading)
Emma Hargraves and Megan Webb (for kindness towards other children)
Ollie Metcalfe (not giving up with his tricky work)
Zara Pratt (expressive brainbuilder work)
Every Child Counts: Every Child Contributes Issue 6
Annie Auckland
Skipping For Schools—Wednesday 21st October
We have invited Sports Skipping for Schools to host an all day skipping coaching
session where our children will have the opportunity to learn a range of skipping
skills. Skipping on a regular basis will help improve general levels of fitness and,
along with the different skipping skills and challenges taught during the day,
children will gain new found confidence in their own physical abilities. Parents are
invited to attend the presentation at the end of the day ay 2.50pm. Ropes will
also be available to buy on the day only at a cost of £4.00 each.
White Ribbons
Vacancy—Midday Supervisor
We are looking for a fun person who can work alongside the lunchtime staff to
ensure a safe, happy and active lunchtime. The person will be fully supported by
the other members of staff—5 hrs per week, working everyday 12.00pm – 1.00pm
Term Time Only. Closing date for applications ~ Friday 6th November 2015. The job
is advertised on the NYCC website or you can obtain an application pack from
school.
Vacancy—Kitchen Assistant
We have a vacancy for a general kitchen assistant to cover long term maternity
leave. It is for 2 hours per day (11.30am-1.30pm). To apply or ask any further
questions, please contact Vivienne Sadler on 07779788585.
Parents evening
Thanks to every parent for attending to discuss the learning of your child. Feed-
back from parents included requests for a maths calculations evening and a
meeting about assessment without levels. We shall arrange both for after half
term, dates to follow. Parents of pupils in years 2 and 6 were given copies of the
criteria for a child to be awarded ‘national standard’. There are higher expecta-
tions on the pupils in all areas of the curriculum. We also had out sample test ma-
terials for both these year groups, these are available on-line – just search for sam-
ple national tests. In the spring term we shall give you more details of the tests and
the teacher assessment.
Clubs
Apologies as a few parents thought that the clubs were on this week, but they
weren’t because of parents’ evenings. They are on next week.
Oak Class
We have had a report of head lice, please check your child's hair and treat. Also
could you bring in an old shirt for the children to wear when they are doing art.
APPLE This week in Apple class we have focused on
Phonics and Maths activities. In our Phonics sessions
we have covered c, ck, and e. The children have
read words and phrases and draw pictures. In
Maths we have worked on weight and counting
and comparing different sets of objects. Thank you
for coming to our parent consultation evenings and we hope you found them useful.
OAK This week Oak class have been working really hard on their grammar and have been
coming up with some fantastic adverbs and adjectives to make sentences more
interesting. We have also focused on using some tricky punctuation; using colons, semi-
colons, bullet points and brackets. We really enjoyed our trip to Ilkley Literary Festival to
listen to Steve Cole talk. He gave the class lots of great ideas for their writing. In maths
we have been thinking about multiples and factors and learning how to recognise a
prime number.
WILLOW
We have been working hard this week on our
place value skills and accuracy when working
with money. Some of us have been ‘purchasing’
sports cars at Willow Class garage and working
out how much we can save. We have also been
developing skills in newspaper writing and using
peer marking to check we have all used
our Top Tips effectively.
BEECH We are really enjoying our work on measuring length this week.
Here are Monty and Minny measuring their playdough ‘snakes’
with their bead strings. We have continued to look at non-fiction
books in literacy and have been labelling features of a fire engine
and writing facts about fire engines and fire fighters. We watched
a very exciting video clip of a fire being put out.
ASH Thank you to everyone that came to Ash class assembly. We really enjoyed sharing all of
our work with you. We worked hard to speak clearly and confidently. In Maths we have
been playing games on the computer to practice our rapid recall of number bonds. We
have been looking at recycling in Science and had lots of ideas about what we could
recycle! Please can I remind all parents that we do not bring toys into school (unless it is
for show and tell—see timetable). We have had lots of upset over toys getting lost or
swapped, so please can you ensure that your children do not bring them.
Lisa’s
Kitchen
Monday 2nd November
Cheese & Tomato Pasta
Syrup Sponge & Custard
Tuesday 3rd November
Meatloaf
Raspberry Bun
Wednesday 4th November
Meat & Potato Pie
Chocolate Mandarin
Sponge
Thursday 5th November
Chicken Korma
Toffee Apple Cake &
Custard
Friday 6th November
Battered Fish
Fruit Salad
Monday 19th October Fish Fingers
Jam Roly Poly & Custard
Tuesday 20th October Pasta Bolognaise
Flapjack
Wednesday 21st October
Chicken Pie
Arctic Roll & Peaches
Thursday 22nd October Beef Hot Pot
Biscuit, Cheese & Grapes
Friday 23rd October
Sausage, Potato & Beans
Halloween Biscuits
PTA Update and Forthcoming Party
Sally, Carolyn and myself would like to say a big hello to you all! We are
looking forward to some exciting times ahead with you all in the coming
school year. As always, we welcome any fundraising ideas from you and
volunteers are always welcomed with enthusiasm!
After our first informal meeting on Friday we have a few ideas that we
would like to share with you, the first being an Autumn fancy dress
party. This will be held in school on Friday 23rd October 3.30pm til
6 pm. Please see details on posters around school.
We are also asking for donations of any magazines, as current as possible,
that you have finished with (these can be adults or children's) We aim to
leave these in reception where you may purchase one for £1.50, a great
way to catch up on the latest celebrity gossip, gardening or children's
programmes at a much reduced price!
Finally, any jam jars that you may have, please bring them in! We have
many uses for them and donations throughout the year are appreciated.
Many thanks in advance, Claire Gautam
This is the main choice—there is
a vegetarian option available
every day (as per menus
sent at the start of term)
Football Report
Joey, Lewis, George, Jonny, Thomas, Alfie, Dylan, Corey, Neive and Kitty
all played in a Y3/4 football tournament at Sandylands last Friday. The
first match was 5 nil to us, then the 2nd match was 1 nil to them, 3rd
match was 3 nil to us, 4th match was 4 nil to them and then the 5th
match was 3 nil to us. Overall we came 4th . We were really proud of our
efforts. By Joey Driscoll
Can you Help?
World Prematurity Day is observed on the 17th November to raise
awareness of pre term birth and the care of premature babies world-
wide. Approximately 15 million babies are born prematurely every year, 1
in 10 around the world.
I volunteer on the neo natal unit at Bradford Royal Infirmary on behalf of
Bliss (Bliss.org.uk) and every year on World Prematurity Day we give gifts to
everyone currently spending time on the unit. This includes purple knitted
hats, one for each child. If any of our parents, grandparents or other
family members are a dab hand at knitting and would like to help out I
would be most grateful! I will need the hats for the first week in November
ideally (they must be purple!). If you need a pattern, please visit http://
www.fiberfluxblog.com/2011/02/free-pattern.html?m=1. Thank you.
Claire Gautam
Parking – Collection
Be aware that it is VERY busy at drop off and collection times. Please
consider parking at the village hall and walking up to school.
Assemblies
Next week: Thursday 22nd October it is Willow class assembly at 9am.
Friday 23rd October – achievement assembly, pupils are invited to bring
in something to show and speak about that they have achieved outside
school.
Oak and Willow class had been challenged to write a short story about
space on the back of a postcard. Amber Dobson won 2 tickets to go to
Settle Stories to see Tales from Cosmos—a story that was set in 1910
about a man shot down 9 suns so that we only had un in the whole wide
world. It was great.
Garg
rave C
of E
Prim
ary
School
Thurs
day 1
5th
Octo
ber
2015
Gargrave CE (VC) Primary School, Neville
Road, Gargrave, BD23 3RE
Tel: 01756 749433 Fax: 01756 749463
Email: admin@gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk
Website: www.gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk
See overleaf for
Holly Eyles (super reading)
Lola Dobson (excellent behaviour)
Ayaan Ali (knowing space facts—confident)
Samuel Blackwell (fantastic number task homework)
Lars Keyworth (perseverance with his can work)
Daisy Hill (working hard during paired reading)
Emma Hargraves and Megan Webb (for kindness towards other children)
Ollie Metcalfe (not giving up with his tricky work)
Zara Pratt (expressive brainbuilder work)
Every Child Counts: Every Child Contributes Issue 6
Oscar MacGregor
Skipping For Schools—Wednesday 21st October
We have invited Sports Skipping for Schools to host an all day skipping coaching
session where our children will have the opportunity to learn a range of skipping
skills. Skipping on a regular basis will help improve general levels of fitness and,
along with the different skipping skills and challenges taught during the day,
children will gain new found confidence in their own physical abilities. Parents are
invited to attend the presentation at the end of the day ay 2.50pm. Ropes will
also be available to buy on the day only at a cost of £4.00 each.
White Ribbons
Vacancy—Midday Supervisor
We are looking for a fun person who can work alongside the lunchtime staff to
ensure a safe, happy and active lunchtime. The person will be fully supported by
the other members of staff—5 hrs per week, working everyday 12.00pm – 1.00pm
Term Time Only. Closing date for applications ~ Friday 6th November 2015. The job
is advertised on the NYCC website or you can obtain an application pack from
school.
Vacancy—Kitchen Assistant
We have a vacancy for a general kitchen assistant to cover long term maternity
leave. It is for 2 hours per day (11.30am-1.30pm). To apply or ask any further
questions, please contact Vivienne Sadler on 07779788585.
Parents evening
Thanks to every parent for attending to discuss the learning of your child. Feed-
back from parents included requests for a maths calculations evening and a
meeting about assessment without levels. We shall arrange both for after half
term, dates to follow. Parents of pupils in years 2 and 6 were given copies of the
criteria for a child to be awarded ‘national standard’. There are higher expecta-
tions on the pupils in all areas of the curriculum. We also had out sample test ma-
terials for both these year groups, these are available on-line – just search for sam-
ple national tests. In the spring term we shall give you more details of the tests and
the teacher assessment.
Clubs
Apologies as a few parents thought that the clubs were on this week, but they
weren’t because of parents’ evenings. They are on next week.
Oak Class
We have had a report of head lice, please check your child's hair and treat. Also
could you bring in an old shirt for the children to wear when they are doing art.
APPLE This week in Apple class we have focused on
Phonics and Maths activities. In our Phonics sessions
we have covered c, ck, and e. The children have
read words and phrases and draw pictures. In
Maths we have worked on weight and counting
and comparing different sets of objects. Thank you
for coming to our parent consultation evenings and we hope you found them useful.
OAK This week Oak class have been working really hard on their grammar and have been
coming up with some fantastic adverbs and adjectives to make sentences more
interesting. We have also focused on using some tricky punctuation; using colons, semi-
colons, bullet points and brackets. We really enjoyed our trip to Ilkley Literary Festival to
listen to Steve Cole talk. He gave the class lots of great ideas for their writing. In maths
we have been thinking about multiples and factors and learning how to recognise a
prime number.
WILLOW
We have been working hard this week on our
place value skills and accuracy when working
with money. Some of us have been ‘purchasing’
sports cars at Willow Class garage and working
out how much we can save. We have also been
developing skills in newspaper writing and using
peer marking to check we have all used
our Top Tips effectively.
BEECH We are really enjoying our work on measuring length this week.
Here are Monty and Minny measuring their playdough ‘snakes’
with their bead strings. We have continued to look at non-fiction
books in literacy and have been labelling features of a fire engine
and writing facts about fire engines and fire fighters. We watched
a very exciting video clip of a fire being put out.
ASH Thank you to everyone that came to Ash class assembly. We really enjoyed sharing all of
our work with you. We worked hard to speak clearly and confidently. In Maths we have
been playing games on the computer to practice our rapid recall of number bonds. We
have been looking at recycling in Science and had lots of ideas about what we could
recycle! Please can I remind all parents that we do not bring toys into school (unless it is
for show and tell—see timetable). We have had lots of upset over toys getting lost or
swapped, so please can you ensure that your children do not bring them.
Lisa’s
Kitchen
Monday 2nd November
Cheese & Tomato Pasta
Syrup Sponge & Custard
Tuesday 3rd November
Meatloaf
Raspberry Bun
Wednesday 4th November
Meat & Potato Pie
Chocolate Mandarin
Sponge
Thursday 5th November
Chicken Korma
Toffee Apple Cake &
Custard
Friday 6th November
Battered Fish
Fruit Salad
Monday 19th October Fish Fingers
Jam Roly Poly & Custard
Tuesday 20th October Pasta Bolognaise
Flapjack
Wednesday 21st October
Chicken Pie
Arctic Roll & Peaches
Thursday 22nd October Beef Hot Pot
Biscuit, Cheese & Grapes
Friday 23rd October
Sausage, Potato & Beans
Halloween Biscuits
PTA Update and Forthcoming Party
Sally, Carolyn and myself would like to say a big hello to you all! We are
looking forward to some exciting times ahead with you all in the coming
school year. As always, we welcome any fundraising ideas from you and
volunteers are always welcomed with enthusiasm!
After our first informal meeting on Friday we have a few ideas that we
would like to share with you, the first being an Autumn fancy dress
party. This will be held in school on Friday 23rd October 3.30pm til
6 pm. Please see details on posters around school.
We are also asking for donations of any magazines, as current as possible,
that you have finished with (these can be adults or children's) We aim to
leave these in reception where you may purchase one for £1.50, a great
way to catch up on the latest celebrity gossip, gardening or children's
programmes at a much reduced price!
Finally, any jam jars that you may have, please bring them in! We have
many uses for them and donations throughout the year are appreciated.
Many thanks in advance, Claire Gautam
This is the main choice—there is
a vegetarian option available
every day (as per menus
sent at the start of term)
Football Report
Joey, Lewis, George, Jonny, Thomas, Alfie, Dylan, Corey, Neive and Kitty
all played in a Y3/4 football tournament at Sandylands last Friday. The
first match was 5 nil to us, then the 2nd match was 1 nil to them, 3rd
match was 3 nil to us, 4th match was 4 nil to them and then the 5th
match was 3 nil to us. Overall we came 4th . We were really proud of our
efforts. By Joey Driscoll
Can you Help?
World Prematurity Day is observed on the 17th November to raise
awareness of pre term birth and the care of premature babies world-
wide. Approximately 15 million babies are born prematurely every year, 1
in 10 around the world.
I volunteer on the neo natal unit at Bradford Royal Infirmary on behalf of
Bliss (Bliss.org.uk) and every year on World Prematurity Day we give gifts to
everyone currently spending time on the unit. This includes purple knitted
hats, one for each child. If any of our parents, grandparents or other
family members are a dab hand at knitting and would like to help out I
would be most grateful! I will need the hats for the first week in November
ideally (they must be purple!). If you need a pattern, please visit http://
www.fiberfluxblog.com/2011/02/free-pattern.html?m=1. Thank you.
Claire Gautam
Parking – Collection
Be aware that it is VERY busy at drop off and collection times. Please
consider parking at the village hall and walking up to school.
Assemblies
Next week: Thursday 22nd October it is Willow class assembly at 9am.
Friday 23rd October – achievement assembly, pupils are invited to bring
in something to show and speak about that they have achieved outside
school.
Oak and Willow class had been challenged to write a short story about
space on the back of a postcard. Amber Dobson won 2 tickets to go to
Settle Stories to see Tales from Cosmos—a story that was set in 1910
about a man shot down 9 suns so that we only had un in the whole wide
world. It was great.
Garg
rave C
of E
Prim
ary
School
Thurs
day 1
5th
Octo
ber
2015
Gargrave CE (VC) Primary School, Neville
Road, Gargrave, BD23 3RE
Tel: 01756 749433 Fax: 01756 749463
Email: admin@gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk
Website: www.gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk
See overleaf for
Holly Eyles (super reading)
Lola Dobson (excellent behaviour)
Ayaan Ali (knowing space facts—confident)
Samuel Blackwell (fantastic number task homework)
Lars Keyworth (perseverance with his can work)
Daisy Hill (working hard during paired reading)
Emma Hargraves and Megan Webb (for kindness towards other children)
Ollie Metcalfe (not giving up with his tricky work)
Zara Pratt (expressive brainbuilder work)
Every Child Counts: Every Child Contributes Issue 6
Victoria Taylor
Skipping For Schools—Wednesday 21st October
We have invited Sports Skipping for Schools to host an all day skipping coaching
session where our children will have the opportunity to learn a range of skipping
skills. Skipping on a regular basis will help improve general levels of fitness and,
along with the different skipping skills and challenges taught during the day,
children will gain new found confidence in their own physical abilities. Parents are
invited to attend the presentation at the end of the day ay 2.50pm. Ropes will
also be available to buy on the day only at a cost of £4.00 each.
White Ribbons
Vacancy—Midday Supervisor
We are looking for a fun person who can work alongside the lunchtime staff to
ensure a safe, happy and active lunchtime. The person will be fully supported by
the other members of staff—5 hrs per week, working everyday 12.00pm – 1.00pm
Term Time Only. Closing date for applications ~ Friday 6th November 2015. The job
is advertised on the NYCC website or you can obtain an application pack from
school.
Vacancy—Kitchen Assistant
We have a vacancy for a general kitchen assistant to cover long term maternity
leave. It is for 2 hours per day (11.30am-1.30pm). To apply or ask any further
questions, please contact Vivienne Sadler on 07779788585.
Parents evening
Thanks to every parent for attending to discuss the learning of your child. Feed-
back from parents included requests for a maths calculations evening and a
meeting about assessment without levels. We shall arrange both for after half
term, dates to follow. Parents of pupils in years 2 and 6 were given copies of the
criteria for a child to be awarded ‘national standard’. There are higher expecta-
tions on the pupils in all areas of the curriculum. We also had out sample test ma-
terials for both these year groups, these are available on-line – just search for sam-
ple national tests. In the spring term we shall give you more details of the tests and
the teacher assessment.
Clubs
Apologies as a few parents thought that the clubs were on this week, but they
weren’t because of parents’ evenings. They are on next week.
Oak Class
We have had a report of head lice, please check your child's hair and treat. Also
could you bring in an old shirt for the children to wear when they are doing art.
APPLE This week in Apple class we have focused on
Phonics and Maths activities. In our Phonics sessions
we have covered c, ck, and e. The children have
read words and phrases and draw pictures. In
Maths we have worked on weight and counting
and comparing different sets of objects. Thank you
for coming to our parent consultation evenings and we hope you found them useful.
OAK This week Oak class have been working really hard on their grammar and have been
coming up with some fantastic adverbs and adjectives to make sentences more
interesting. We have also focused on using some tricky punctuation; using colons, semi-
colons, bullet points and brackets. We really enjoyed our trip to Ilkley Literary Festival to
listen to Steve Cole talk. He gave the class lots of great ideas for their writing. In maths
we have been thinking about multiples and factors and learning how to recognise a
prime number.
WILLOW
We have been working hard this week on our
place value skills and accuracy when working
with money. Some of us have been ‘purchasing’
sports cars at Willow Class garage and working
out how much we can save. We have also been
developing skills in newspaper writing and using
peer marking to check we have all used
our Top Tips effectively.
BEECH We are really enjoying our work on measuring length this week.
Here are Monty and Minny measuring their playdough ‘snakes’
with their bead strings. We have continued to look at non-fiction
books in literacy and have been labelling features of a fire engine
and writing facts about fire engines and fire fighters. We watched
a very exciting video clip of a fire being put out.
ASH Thank you to everyone that came to Ash class assembly. We really enjoyed sharing all of
our work with you. We worked hard to speak clearly and confidently. In Maths we have
been playing games on the computer to practice our rapid recall of number bonds. We
have been looking at recycling in Science and had lots of ideas about what we could
recycle! Please can I remind all parents that we do not bring toys into school (unless it is
for show and tell—see timetable). We have had lots of upset over toys getting lost or
swapped, so please can you ensure that your children do not bring them.
Lisa’s
Kitchen
Monday 2nd November
Cheese & Tomato Pasta
Syrup Sponge & Custard
Tuesday 3rd November
Meatloaf
Raspberry Bun
Wednesday 4th November
Meat & Potato Pie
Chocolate Mandarin
Sponge
Thursday 5th November
Chicken Korma
Toffee Apple Cake &
Custard
Friday 6th November
Battered Fish
Fruit Salad
Monday 19th October Fish Fingers
Jam Roly Poly & Custard
Tuesday 20th October Pasta Bolognaise
Flapjack
Wednesday 21st October
Chicken Pie
Arctic Roll & Peaches
Thursday 22nd October Beef Hot Pot
Biscuit, Cheese & Grapes
Friday 23rd October
Sausage, Potato & Beans
Halloween Biscuits
PTA Update and Forthcoming Party
Sally, Carolyn and myself would like to say a big hello to you all! We are
looking forward to some exciting times ahead with you all in the coming
school year. As always, we welcome any fundraising ideas from you and
volunteers are always welcomed with enthusiasm!
After our first informal meeting on Friday we have a few ideas that we
would like to share with you, the first being an Autumn fancy dress
party. This will be held in school on Friday 23rd October 3.30pm til
6 pm. Please see details on posters around school.
We are also asking for donations of any magazines, as current as possible,
that you have finished with (these can be adults or children's) We aim to
leave these in reception where you may purchase one for £1.50, a great
way to catch up on the latest celebrity gossip, gardening or children's
programmes at a much reduced price!
Finally, any jam jars that you may have, please bring them in! We have
many uses for them and donations throughout the year are appreciated.
Many thanks in advance, Claire Gautam
This is the main choice—there is
a vegetarian option available
every day (as per menus
sent at the start of term)
Football Report
Joey, Lewis, George, Jonny, Thomas, Alfie, Dylan, Corey, Neive and Kitty
all played in a Y3/4 football tournament at Sandylands last Friday. The
first match was 5 nil to us, then the 2nd match was 1 nil to them, 3rd
match was 3 nil to us, 4th match was 4 nil to them and then the 5th
match was 3 nil to us. Overall we came 4th . We were really proud of our
efforts. By Joey Driscoll
Can you Help?
World Prematurity Day is observed on the 17th November to raise
awareness of pre term birth and the care of premature babies world-
wide. Approximately 15 million babies are born prematurely every year, 1
in 10 around the world.
I volunteer on the neo natal unit at Bradford Royal Infirmary on behalf of
Bliss (Bliss.org.uk) and every year on World Prematurity Day we give gifts to
everyone currently spending time on the unit. This includes purple knitted
hats, one for each child. If any of our parents, grandparents or other
family members are a dab hand at knitting and would like to help out I
would be most grateful! I will need the hats for the first week in November
ideally (they must be purple!). If you need a pattern, please visit http://
www.fiberfluxblog.com/2011/02/free-pattern.html?m=1. Thank you.
Claire Gautam
Parking – Collection
Be aware that it is VERY busy at drop off and collection times. Please
consider parking at the village hall and walking up to school.
Assemblies
Next week: Thursday 22nd October it is Willow class assembly at 9am.
Friday 23rd October – achievement assembly, pupils are invited to bring
in something to show and speak about that they have achieved outside
school.
Oak and Willow class had been challenged to write a short story about
space on the back of a postcard. Amber Dobson won 2 tickets to go to
Settle Stories to see Tales from Cosmos—a story that was set in 1910
about a man shot down 9 suns so that we only had un in the whole wide
world. It was great.
Garg
rave C
of E
Prim
ary
School
Thurs
day 1
5th
Octo
ber
2015
Gargrave CE (VC) Primary School, Neville
Road, Gargrave, BD23 3RE
Tel: 01756 749433 Fax: 01756 749463
Email: admin@gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk
Website: www.gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk
See overleaf for
Holly Eyles (super reading)
Lola Dobson (excellent behaviour)
Ayaan Ali (knowing space facts—confident)
Samuel Blackwell (fantastic number task homework)
Lars Keyworth (perseverance with his can work)
Daisy Hill (working hard during paired reading)
Emma Hargraves and Megan Webb (for kindness towards other children)
Ollie Metcalfe (not giving up with his tricky work)
Zara Pratt (expressive brainbuilder work)
Every Child Counts: Every Child Contributes Issue 6
Henry Rimmer
Skipping For Schools—Wednesday 21st October
We have invited Sports Skipping for Schools to host an all day skipping coaching
session where our children will have the opportunity to learn a range of skipping
skills. Skipping on a regular basis will help improve general levels of fitness and,
along with the different skipping skills and challenges taught during the day,
children will gain new found confidence in their own physical abilities. Parents are
invited to attend the presentation at the end of the day ay 2.50pm. Ropes will
also be available to buy on the day only at a cost of £4.00 each.
White Ribbons
Vacancy—Midday Supervisor
We are looking for a fun person who can work alongside the lunchtime staff to
ensure a safe, happy and active lunchtime. The person will be fully supported by
the other members of staff—5 hrs per week, working everyday 12.00pm – 1.00pm
Term Time Only. Closing date for applications ~ Friday 6th November 2015. The job
is advertised on the NYCC website or you can obtain an application pack from
school.
Vacancy—Kitchen Assistant
We have a vacancy for a general kitchen assistant to cover long term maternity
leave. It is for 2 hours per day (11.30am-1.30pm). To apply or ask any further
questions, please contact Vivienne Sadler on 07779788585.
Parents evening
Thanks to every parent for attending to discuss the learning of your child. Feed-
back from parents included requests for a maths calculations evening and a
meeting about assessment without levels. We shall arrange both for after half
term, dates to follow. Parents of pupils in years 2 and 6 were given copies of the
criteria for a child to be awarded ‘national standard’. There are higher expecta-
tions on the pupils in all areas of the curriculum. We also had out sample test ma-
terials for both these year groups, these are available on-line – just search for sam-
ple national tests. In the spring term we shall give you more details of the tests and
the teacher assessment.
Clubs
Apologies as a few parents thought that the clubs were on this week, but they
weren’t because of parents’ evenings. They are on next week.
Oak Class
We have had a report of head lice, please check your child's hair and treat. Also
could you bring in an old shirt for the children to wear when they are doing art.
APPLE This week in Apple class we have focused on
Phonics and Maths activities. In our Phonics sessions
we have covered c, ck, and e. The children have
read words and phrases and draw pictures. In
Maths we have worked on weight and counting
and comparing different sets of objects. Thank you
for coming to our parent consultation evenings and we hope you found them useful.
OAK This week Oak class have been working really hard on their grammar and have been
coming up with some fantastic adverbs and adjectives to make sentences more
interesting. We have also focused on using some tricky punctuation; using colons, semi-
colons, bullet points and brackets. We really enjoyed our trip to Ilkley Literary Festival to
listen to Steve Cole talk. He gave the class lots of great ideas for their writing. In maths
we have been thinking about multiples and factors and learning how to recognise a
prime number.
WILLOW
We have been working hard this week on our
place value skills and accuracy when working
with money. Some of us have been ‘purchasing’
sports cars at Willow Class garage and working
out how much we can save. We have also been
developing skills in newspaper writing and using
peer marking to check we have all used
our Top Tips effectively.
BEECH We are really enjoying our work on measuring length this week.
Here are Monty and Minny measuring their playdough ‘snakes’
with their bead strings. We have continued to look at non-fiction
books in literacy and have been labelling features of a fire engine
and writing facts about fire engines and fire fighters. We watched
a very exciting video clip of a fire being put out.
ASH Thank you to everyone that came to Ash class assembly. We really enjoyed sharing all of
our work with you. We worked hard to speak clearly and confidently. In Maths we have
been playing games on the computer to practice our rapid recall of number bonds. We
have been looking at recycling in Science and had lots of ideas about what we could
recycle! Please can I remind all parents that we do not bring toys into school (unless it is
for show and tell—see timetable). We have had lots of upset over toys getting lost or
swapped, so please can you ensure that your children do not bring them.
Lisa’s
Kitchen
Monday 2nd November
Cheese & Tomato Pasta
Syrup Sponge & Custard
Tuesday 3rd November
Meatloaf
Raspberry Bun
Wednesday 4th November
Meat & Potato Pie
Chocolate Mandarin
Sponge
Thursday 5th November
Chicken Korma
Toffee Apple Cake &
Custard
Friday 6th November
Battered Fish
Fruit Salad
Monday 19th October Fish Fingers
Jam Roly Poly & Custard
Tuesday 20th October Pasta Bolognaise
Flapjack
Wednesday 21st October
Chicken Pie
Arctic Roll & Peaches
Thursday 22nd October Beef Hot Pot
Biscuit, Cheese & Grapes
Friday 23rd October
Sausage, Potato & Beans
Halloween Biscuits
PTA Update and Forthcoming Party
Sally, Carolyn and myself would like to say a big hello to you all! We are
looking forward to some exciting times ahead with you all in the coming
school year. As always, we welcome any fundraising ideas from you and
volunteers are always welcomed with enthusiasm!
After our first informal meeting on Friday we have a few ideas that we
would like to share with you, the first being an Autumn fancy dress
party. This will be held in school on Friday 23rd October 3.30pm til
6 pm. Please see details on posters around school.
We are also asking for donations of any magazines, as current as possible,
that you have finished with (these can be adults or children's) We aim to
leave these in reception where you may purchase one for £1.50, a great
way to catch up on the latest celebrity gossip, gardening or children's
programmes at a much reduced price!
Finally, any jam jars that you may have, please bring them in! We have
many uses for them and donations throughout the year are appreciated.
Many thanks in advance, Claire Gautam
This is the main choice—there is
a vegetarian option available
every day (as per menus
sent at the start of term)
Football Report
Joey, Lewis, George, Jonny, Thomas, Alfie, Dylan, Corey, Neive and Kitty
all played in a Y3/4 football tournament at Sandylands last Friday. The
first match was 5 nil to us, then the 2nd match was 1 nil to them, 3rd
match was 3 nil to us, 4th match was 4 nil to them and then the 5th
match was 3 nil to us. Overall we came 4th . We were really proud of our
efforts. By Joey Driscoll
Can you Help?
World Prematurity Day is observed on the 17th November to raise
awareness of pre term birth and the care of premature babies world-
wide. Approximately 15 million babies are born prematurely every year, 1
in 10 around the world.
I volunteer on the neo natal unit at Bradford Royal Infirmary on behalf of
Bliss (Bliss.org.uk) and every year on World Prematurity Day we give gifts to
everyone currently spending time on the unit. This includes purple knitted
hats, one for each child. If any of our parents, grandparents or other
family members are a dab hand at knitting and would like to help out I
would be most grateful! I will need the hats for the first week in November
ideally (they must be purple!). If you need a pattern, please visit http://
www.fiberfluxblog.com/2011/02/free-pattern.html?m=1. Thank you.
Claire Gautam
Parking – Collection
Be aware that it is VERY busy at drop off and collection times. Please
consider parking at the village hall and walking up to school.
Assemblies
Next week: Thursday 22nd October it is Willow class assembly at 9am.
Friday 23rd October – achievement assembly, pupils are invited to bring
in something to show and speak about that they have achieved outside
school.
Oak and Willow class had been challenged to write a short story about
space on the back of a postcard. Amber Dobson won 2 tickets to go to
Settle Stories to see Tales from Cosmos—a story that was set in 1910
about a man shot down 9 suns so that we only had un in the whole wide
world. It was great.
Garg
rave C
of E
Prim
ary
School
Thurs
day 1
5th
Octo
ber
2015
Gargrave CE (VC) Primary School, Neville
Road, Gargrave, BD23 3RE
Tel: 01756 749433 Fax: 01756 749463
Email: admin@gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk
Website: www.gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk
See overleaf for
Holly Eyles (super reading)
Lola Dobson (excellent behaviour)
Ayaan Ali (knowing space facts—confident)
Samuel Blackwell (fantastic number task homework)
Lars Keyworth (perseverance with his can work)
Daisy Hill (working hard during paired reading)
Emma Hargraves and Megan Webb (for kindness towards other children)
Ollie Metcalfe (not giving up with his tricky work)
Zara Pratt (expressive brainbuilder work)
Every Child Counts: Every Child Contributes Issue 6
George Lockhart
Skipping For Schools—Wednesday 21st October
We have invited Sports Skipping for Schools to host an all day skipping coaching
session where our children will have the opportunity to learn a range of skipping
skills. Skipping on a regular basis will help improve general levels of fitness and,
along with the different skipping skills and challenges taught during the day,
children will gain new found confidence in their own physical abilities. Parents are
invited to attend the presentation at the end of the day ay 2.50pm. Ropes will
also be available to buy on the day only at a cost of £4.00 each.
White Ribbons
Vacancy—Midday Supervisor
We are looking for a fun person who can work alongside the lunchtime staff to
ensure a safe, happy and active lunchtime. The person will be fully supported by
the other members of staff—5 hrs per week, working everyday 12.00pm – 1.00pm
Term Time Only. Closing date for applications ~ Friday 6th November 2015. The job
is advertised on the NYCC website or you can obtain an application pack from
school.
Vacancy—Kitchen Assistant
We have a vacancy for a general kitchen assistant to cover long term maternity
leave. It is for 2 hours per day (11.30am-1.30pm). To apply or ask any further
questions, please contact Vivienne Sadler on 07779788585.
Parents evening
Thanks to every parent for attending to discuss the learning of your child. Feed-
back from parents included requests for a maths calculations evening and a
meeting about assessment without levels. We shall arrange both for after half
term, dates to follow. Parents of pupils in years 2 and 6 were given copies of the
criteria for a child to be awarded ‘national standard’. There are higher expecta-
tions on the pupils in all areas of the curriculum. We also had out sample test ma-
terials for both these year groups, these are available on-line – just search for sam-
ple national tests. In the spring term we shall give you more details of the tests and
the teacher assessment.
Clubs
Apologies as a few parents thought that the clubs were on this week, but they
weren’t because of parents’ evenings. They are on next week.
Oak Class
We have had a report of head lice, please check your child's hair and treat. Also
could you bring in an old shirt for the children to wear when they are doing art.
APPLE This week in Apple class we have focused on
Phonics and Maths activities. In our Phonics sessions
we have covered c, ck, and e. The children have
read words and phrases and draw pictures. In
Maths we have worked on weight and counting
and comparing different sets of objects. Thank you
for coming to our parent consultation evenings and we hope you found them useful.
OAK This week Oak class have been working really hard on their grammar and have been
coming up with some fantastic adverbs and adjectives to make sentences more
interesting. We have also focused on using some tricky punctuation; using colons, semi-
colons, bullet points and brackets. We really enjoyed our trip to Ilkley Literary Festival to
listen to Steve Cole talk. He gave the class lots of great ideas for their writing. In maths
we have been thinking about multiples and factors and learning how to recognise a
prime number.
WILLOW
We have been working hard this week on our
place value skills and accuracy when working
with money. Some of us have been ‘purchasing’
sports cars at Willow Class garage and working
out how much we can save. We have also been
developing skills in newspaper writing and using
peer marking to check we have all used
our Top Tips effectively.
BEECH We are really enjoying our work on measuring length this week.
Here are Monty and Minny measuring their playdough ‘snakes’
with their bead strings. We have continued to look at non-fiction
books in literacy and have been labelling features of a fire engine
and writing facts about fire engines and fire fighters. We watched
a very exciting video clip of a fire being put out.
ASH Thank you to everyone that came to Ash class assembly. We really enjoyed sharing all of
our work with you. We worked hard to speak clearly and confidently. In Maths we have
been playing games on the computer to practice our rapid recall of number bonds. We
have been looking at recycling in Science and had lots of ideas about what we could
recycle! Please can I remind all parents that we do not bring toys into school (unless it is
for show and tell—see timetable). We have had lots of upset over toys getting lost or
swapped, so please can you ensure that your children do not bring them.
Lisa’s
Kitchen
Monday 2nd November
Cheese & Tomato Pasta
Syrup Sponge & Custard
Tuesday 3rd November
Meatloaf
Raspberry Bun
Wednesday 4th November
Meat & Potato Pie
Chocolate Mandarin
Sponge
Thursday 5th November
Chicken Korma
Toffee Apple Cake &
Custard
Friday 6th November
Battered Fish
Fruit Salad
Monday 19th October Fish Fingers
Jam Roly Poly & Custard
Tuesday 20th October Pasta Bolognaise
Flapjack
Wednesday 21st October
Chicken Pie
Arctic Roll & Peaches
Thursday 22nd October Beef Hot Pot
Biscuit, Cheese & Grapes
Friday 23rd October
Sausage, Potato & Beans
Halloween Biscuits
PTA Update and Forthcoming Party
Sally, Carolyn and myself would like to say a big hello to you all! We are
looking forward to some exciting times ahead with you all in the coming
school year. As always, we welcome any fundraising ideas from you and
volunteers are always welcomed with enthusiasm!
After our first informal meeting on Friday we have a few ideas that we
would like to share with you, the first being an Autumn fancy dress
party. This will be held in school on Friday 23rd October 3.30pm til
6 pm. Please see details on posters around school.
We are also asking for donations of any magazines, as current as possible,
that you have finished with (these can be adults or children's) We aim to
leave these in reception where you may purchase one for £1.50, a great
way to catch up on the latest celebrity gossip, gardening or children's
programmes at a much reduced price!
Finally, any jam jars that you may have, please bring them in! We have
many uses for them and donations throughout the year are appreciated.
Many thanks in advance, Claire Gautam
This is the main choice—there is
a vegetarian option available
every day (as per menus
sent at the start of term)
Football Report
Joey, Lewis, George, Jonny, Thomas, Alfie, Dylan, Corey, Neive and Kitty
all played in a Y3/4 football tournament at Sandylands last Friday. The
first match was 5 nil to us, then the 2nd match was 1 nil to them, 3rd
match was 3 nil to us, 4th match was 4 nil to them and then the 5th
match was 3 nil to us. Overall we came 4th . We were really proud of our
efforts. By Joey Driscoll
Can you Help?
World Prematurity Day is observed on the 17th November to raise
awareness of pre term birth and the care of premature babies world-
wide. Approximately 15 million babies are born prematurely every year, 1
in 10 around the world.
I volunteer on the neo natal unit at Bradford Royal Infirmary on behalf of
Bliss (Bliss.org.uk) and every year on World Prematurity Day we give gifts to
everyone currently spending time on the unit. This includes purple knitted
hats, one for each child. If any of our parents, grandparents or other
family members are a dab hand at knitting and would like to help out I
would be most grateful! I will need the hats for the first week in November
ideally (they must be purple!). If you need a pattern, please visit http://
www.fiberfluxblog.com/2011/02/free-pattern.html?m=1. Thank you.
Claire Gautam
Parking – Collection
Be aware that it is VERY busy at drop off and collection times. Please
consider parking at the village hall and walking up to school.
Assemblies
Next week: Thursday 22nd October it is Willow class assembly at 9am.
Friday 23rd October – achievement assembly, pupils are invited to bring
in something to show and speak about that they have achieved outside
school.
Oak and Willow class had been challenged to write a short story about
space on the back of a postcard. Amber Dobson won 2 tickets to go to
Settle Stories to see Tales from Cosmos—a story that was set in 1910
about a man shot down 9 suns so that we only had un in the whole wide
world. It was great.
Garg
rave C
of E
Prim
ary
School
Thurs
day 1
5th
Octo
ber
2015
Gargrave CE (VC) Primary School, Neville
Road, Gargrave, BD23 3RE
Tel: 01756 749433 Fax: 01756 749463
Email: admin@gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk
Website: www.gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk
See overleaf for
Holly Eyles (super reading)
Lola Dobson (excellent behaviour)
Ayaan Ali (knowing space facts—confident)
Samuel Blackwell (fantastic number task homework)
Lars Keyworth (perseverance with his can work)
Daisy Hill (working hard during paired reading)
Emma Hargraves and Megan Webb (for kindness towards other children)
Ollie Metcalfe (not giving up with his tricky work)
Zara Pratt (expressive brainbuilder work)
Every Child Counts: Every Child Contributes Issue 6
Ayaan Ali
Skipping For Schools—Wednesday 21st October
We have invited Sports Skipping for Schools to host an all day skipping coaching
session where our children will have the opportunity to learn a range of skipping
skills. Skipping on a regular basis will help improve general levels of fitness and,
along with the different skipping skills and challenges taught during the day,
children will gain new found confidence in their own physical abilities. Parents are
invited to attend the presentation at the end of the day ay 2.50pm. Ropes will
also be available to buy on the day only at a cost of £4.00 each.
White Ribbons
Vacancy—Midday Supervisor
We are looking for a fun person who can work alongside the lunchtime staff to
ensure a safe, happy and active lunchtime. The person will be fully supported by
the other members of staff—5 hrs per week, working everyday 12.00pm – 1.00pm
Term Time Only. Closing date for applications ~ Friday 6th November 2015. The job
is advertised on the NYCC website or you can obtain an application pack from
school.
Vacancy—Kitchen Assistant
We have a vacancy for a general kitchen assistant to cover long term maternity
leave. It is for 2 hours per day (11.30am-1.30pm). To apply or ask any further
questions, please contact Vivienne Sadler on 07779788585.
Parents evening
Thanks to every parent for attending to discuss the learning of your child. Feed-
back from parents included requests for a maths calculations evening and a
meeting about assessment without levels. We shall arrange both for after half
term, dates to follow. Parents of pupils in years 2 and 6 were given copies of the
criteria for a child to be awarded ‘national standard’. There are higher expecta-
tions on the pupils in all areas of the curriculum. We also had out sample test ma-
terials for both these year groups, these are available on-line – just search for sam-
ple national tests. In the spring term we shall give you more details of the tests and
the teacher assessment.
Clubs
Apologies as a few parents thought that the clubs were on this week, but they
weren’t because of parents’ evenings. They are on next week.
Oak Class
We have had a report of head lice, please check your child's hair and treat. Also
could you bring in an old shirt for the children to wear when they are doing art.
APPLE This week in Apple class we have focused on
Phonics and Maths activities. In our Phonics sessions
we have covered c, ck, and e. The children have
read words and phrases and draw pictures. In
Maths we have worked on weight and counting
and comparing different sets of objects. Thank you
for coming to our parent consultation evenings and we hope you found them useful.
OAK This week Oak class have been working really hard on their grammar and have been
coming up with some fantastic adverbs and adjectives to make sentences more
interesting. We have also focused on using some tricky punctuation; using colons, semi-
colons, bullet points and brackets. We really enjoyed our trip to Ilkley Literary Festival to
listen to Steve Cole talk. He gave the class lots of great ideas for their writing. In maths
we have been thinking about multiples and factors and learning how to recognise a
prime number.
WILLOW
We have been working hard this week on our
place value skills and accuracy when working
with money. Some of us have been ‘purchasing’
sports cars at Willow Class garage and working
out how much we can save. We have also been
developing skills in newspaper writing and using
peer marking to check we have all used
our Top Tips effectively.
BEECH We are really enjoying our work on measuring length this week.
Here are Monty and Minny measuring their playdough ‘snakes’
with their bead strings. We have continued to look at non-fiction
books in literacy and have been labelling features of a fire engine
and writing facts about fire engines and fire fighters. We watched
a very exciting video clip of a fire being put out.
ASH Thank you to everyone that came to Ash class assembly. We really enjoyed sharing all of
our work with you. We worked hard to speak clearly and confidently. In Maths we have
been playing games on the computer to practice our rapid recall of number bonds. We
have been looking at recycling in Science and had lots of ideas about what we could
recycle! Please can I remind all parents that we do not bring toys into school (unless it is
for show and tell—see timetable). We have had lots of upset over toys getting lost or
swapped, so please can you ensure that your children do not bring them.
Lisa’s
Kitchen
Monday 2nd November
Cheese & Tomato Pasta
Syrup Sponge & Custard
Tuesday 3rd November
Meatloaf
Raspberry Bun
Wednesday 4th November
Meat & Potato Pie
Chocolate Mandarin
Sponge
Thursday 5th November
Chicken Korma
Toffee Apple Cake &
Custard
Friday 6th November
Battered Fish
Fruit Salad
Monday 19th October Fish Fingers
Jam Roly Poly & Custard
Tuesday 20th October Pasta Bolognaise
Flapjack
Wednesday 21st October
Chicken Pie
Arctic Roll & Peaches
Thursday 22nd October Beef Hot Pot
Biscuit, Cheese & Grapes
Friday 23rd October
Sausage, Potato & Beans
Halloween Biscuits
PTA Update and Forthcoming Party
Sally, Carolyn and myself would like to say a big hello to you all! We are
looking forward to some exciting times ahead with you all in the coming
school year. As always, we welcome any fundraising ideas from you and
volunteers are always welcomed with enthusiasm!
After our first informal meeting on Friday we have a few ideas that we
would like to share with you, the first being an Autumn fancy dress
party. This will be held in school on Friday 23rd October 3.30pm til
6 pm. Please see details on posters around school.
We are also asking for donations of any magazines, as current as possible,
that you have finished with (these can be adults or children's) We aim to
leave these in reception where you may purchase one for £1.50, a great
way to catch up on the latest celebrity gossip, gardening or children's
programmes at a much reduced price!
Finally, any jam jars that you may have, please bring them in! We have
many uses for them and donations throughout the year are appreciated.
Many thanks in advance, Claire Gautam
This is the main choice—there is
a vegetarian option available
every day (as per menus
sent at the start of term)
Football Report
Joey, Lewis, George, Jonny, Thomas, Alfie, Dylan, Corey, Neive and Kitty
all played in a Y3/4 football tournament at Sandylands last Friday. The
first match was 5 nil to us, then the 2nd match was 1 nil to them, 3rd
match was 3 nil to us, 4th match was 4 nil to them and then the 5th
match was 3 nil to us. Overall we came 4th . We were really proud of our
efforts. By Joey Driscoll
Can you Help?
World Prematurity Day is observed on the 17th November to raise
awareness of pre term birth and the care of premature babies world-
wide. Approximately 15 million babies are born prematurely every year, 1
in 10 around the world.
I volunteer on the neo natal unit at Bradford Royal Infirmary on behalf of
Bliss (Bliss.org.uk) and every year on World Prematurity Day we give gifts to
everyone currently spending time on the unit. This includes purple knitted
hats, one for each child. If any of our parents, grandparents or other
family members are a dab hand at knitting and would like to help out I
would be most grateful! I will need the hats for the first week in November
ideally (they must be purple!). If you need a pattern, please visit http://
www.fiberfluxblog.com/2011/02/free-pattern.html?m=1. Thank you.
Claire Gautam
Parking – Collection
Be aware that it is VERY busy at drop off and collection times. Please
consider parking at the village hall and walking up to school.
Assemblies
Next week: Thursday 22nd October it is Willow class assembly at 9am.
Friday 23rd October – achievement assembly, pupils are invited to bring
in something to show and speak about that they have achieved outside
school.
Oak and Willow class had been challenged to write a short story about
space on the back of a postcard. Amber Dobson won 2 tickets to go to
Settle Stories to see Tales from Cosmos—a story that was set in 1910
about a man shot down 9 suns so that we only had un in the whole wide
world. It was great.
Garg
rave C
of E
Prim
ary
School
Thurs
day 1
5th
Octo
ber
2015
Gargrave CE (VC) Primary School, Neville
Road, Gargrave, BD23 3RE
Tel: 01756 749433 Fax: 01756 749463
Email: admin@gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk
Website: www.gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk
See overleaf for
Holly Eyles (super reading)
Lola Dobson (excellent behaviour)
Ayaan Ali (knowing space facts—confident)
Samuel Blackwell (fantastic number task homework)
Lars Keyworth (perseverance with his can work)
Daisy Hill (working hard during paired reading)
Emma Hargraves and Megan Webb (for kindness towards other children)
Ollie Metcalfe (not giving up with his tricky work)
Zara Pratt (expressive brainbuilder work)
Every Child Counts: Every Child Contributes Issue 6
Monty Carruthers
Skipping For Schools—Wednesday 21st October
We have invited Sports Skipping for Schools to host an all day skipping coaching
session where our children will have the opportunity to learn a range of skipping
skills. Skipping on a regular basis will help improve general levels of fitness and,
along with the different skipping skills and challenges taught during the day,
children will gain new found confidence in their own physical abilities. Parents are
invited to attend the presentation at the end of the day ay 2.50pm. Ropes will
also be available to buy on the day only at a cost of £4.00 each.
White Ribbons
Vacancy—Midday Supervisor
We are looking for a fun person who can work alongside the lunchtime staff to
ensure a safe, happy and active lunchtime. The person will be fully supported by
the other members of staff—5 hrs per week, working everyday 12.00pm – 1.00pm
Term Time Only. Closing date for applications ~ Friday 6th November 2015. The job
is advertised on the NYCC website or you can obtain an application pack from
school.
Vacancy—Kitchen Assistant
We have a vacancy for a general kitchen assistant to cover long term maternity
leave. It is for 2 hours per day (11.30am-1.30pm). To apply or ask any further
questions, please contact Vivienne Sadler on 07779788585.
Parents evening
Thanks to every parent for attending to discuss the learning of your child. Feed-
back from parents included requests for a maths calculations evening and a
meeting about assessment without levels. We shall arrange both for after half
term, dates to follow. Parents of pupils in years 2 and 6 were given copies of the
criteria for a child to be awarded ‘national standard’. There are higher expecta-
tions on the pupils in all areas of the curriculum. We also had out sample test ma-
terials for both these year groups, these are available on-line – just search for sam-
ple national tests. In the spring term we shall give you more details of the tests and
the teacher assessment.
Clubs
Apologies as a few parents thought that the clubs were on this week, but they
weren’t because of parents’ evenings. They are on next week.
Oak Class
We have had a report of head lice, please check your child's hair and treat. Also
could you bring in an old shirt for the children to wear when they are doing art.
APPLE This week in Apple class we have focused on
Phonics and Maths activities. In our Phonics sessions
we have covered c, ck, and e. The children have
read words and phrases and draw pictures. In
Maths we have worked on weight and counting
and comparing different sets of objects. Thank you
for coming to our parent consultation evenings and we hope you found them useful.
OAK This week Oak class have been working really hard on their grammar and have been
coming up with some fantastic adverbs and adjectives to make sentences more
interesting. We have also focused on using some tricky punctuation; using colons, semi-
colons, bullet points and brackets. We really enjoyed our trip to Ilkley Literary Festival to
listen to Steve Cole talk. He gave the class lots of great ideas for their writing. In maths
we have been thinking about multiples and factors and learning how to recognise a
prime number.
WILLOW
We have been working hard this week on our
place value skills and accuracy when working
with money. Some of us have been ‘purchasing’
sports cars at Willow Class garage and working
out how much we can save. We have also been
developing skills in newspaper writing and using
peer marking to check we have all used
our Top Tips effectively.
BEECH We are really enjoying our work on measuring length this week.
Here are Monty and Minny measuring their playdough ‘snakes’
with their bead strings. We have continued to look at non-fiction
books in literacy and have been labelling features of a fire engine
and writing facts about fire engines and fire fighters. We watched
a very exciting video clip of a fire being put out.
ASH Thank you to everyone that came to Ash class assembly. We really enjoyed sharing all of
our work with you. We worked hard to speak clearly and confidently. In Maths we have
been playing games on the computer to practice our rapid recall of number bonds. We
have been looking at recycling in Science and had lots of ideas about what we could
recycle! Please can I remind all parents that we do not bring toys into school (unless it is
for show and tell—see timetable). We have had lots of upset over toys getting lost or
swapped, so please can you ensure that your children do not bring them.
Lisa’s
Kitchen
Monday 2nd November
Cheese & Tomato Pasta
Syrup Sponge & Custard
Tuesday 3rd November
Meatloaf
Raspberry Bun
Wednesday 4th November
Meat & Potato Pie
Chocolate Mandarin
Sponge
Thursday 5th November
Chicken Korma
Toffee Apple Cake &
Custard
Friday 6th November
Battered Fish
Fruit Salad
Monday 19th October Fish Fingers
Jam Roly Poly & Custard
Tuesday 20th October Pasta Bolognaise
Flapjack
Wednesday 21st October
Chicken Pie
Arctic Roll & Peaches
Thursday 22nd October Beef Hot Pot
Biscuit, Cheese & Grapes
Friday 23rd October
Sausage, Potato & Beans
Halloween Biscuits
PTA Update and Forthcoming Party
Sally, Carolyn and myself would like to say a big hello to you all! We are
looking forward to some exciting times ahead with you all in the coming
school year. As always, we welcome any fundraising ideas from you and
volunteers are always welcomed with enthusiasm!
After our first informal meeting on Friday we have a few ideas that we
would like to share with you, the first being an Autumn fancy dress
party. This will be held in school on Friday 23rd October 3.30pm til
6 pm. Please see details on posters around school.
We are also asking for donations of any magazines, as current as possible,
that you have finished with (these can be adults or children's) We aim to
leave these in reception where you may purchase one for £1.50, a great
way to catch up on the latest celebrity gossip, gardening or children's
programmes at a much reduced price!
Finally, any jam jars that you may have, please bring them in! We have
many uses for them and donations throughout the year are appreciated.
Many thanks in advance, Claire Gautam
This is the main choice—there is
a vegetarian option available
every day (as per menus
sent at the start of term)
Football Report
Joey, Lewis, George, Jonny, Thomas, Alfie, Dylan, Corey, Neive and Kitty
all played in a Y3/4 football tournament at Sandylands last Friday. The
first match was 5 nil to us, then the 2nd match was 1 nil to them, 3rd
match was 3 nil to us, 4th match was 4 nil to them and then the 5th
match was 3 nil to us. Overall we came 4th . We were really proud of our
efforts. By Joey Driscoll
Can you Help?
World Prematurity Day is observed on the 17th November to raise
awareness of pre term birth and the care of premature babies world-
wide. Approximately 15 million babies are born prematurely every year, 1
in 10 around the world.
I volunteer on the neo natal unit at Bradford Royal Infirmary on behalf of
Bliss (Bliss.org.uk) and every year on World Prematurity Day we give gifts to
everyone currently spending time on the unit. This includes purple knitted
hats, one for each child. If any of our parents, grandparents or other
family members are a dab hand at knitting and would like to help out I
would be most grateful! I will need the hats for the first week in November
ideally (they must be purple!). If you need a pattern, please visit http://
www.fiberfluxblog.com/2011/02/free-pattern.html?m=1. Thank you.
Claire Gautam
Parking – Collection
Be aware that it is VERY busy at drop off and collection times. Please
consider parking at the village hall and walking up to school.
Assemblies
Next week: Thursday 22nd October it is Willow class assembly at 9am.
Friday 23rd October – achievement assembly, pupils are invited to bring
in something to show and speak about that they have achieved outside
school.
Oak and Willow class had been challenged to write a short story about
space on the back of a postcard. Amber Dobson won 2 tickets to go to
Settle Stories to see Tales from Cosmos—a story that was set in 1910
about a man shot down 9 suns so that we only had un in the whole wide
world. It was great.
Garg
rave C
of E
Prim
ary
School
Thurs
day 1
5th
Octo
ber
2015
Gargrave CE (VC) Primary School, Neville
Road, Gargrave, BD23 3RE
Tel: 01756 749433 Fax: 01756 749463
Email: admin@gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk
Website: www.gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk
See overleaf for
Holly Eyles (super reading)
Lola Dobson (excellent behaviour)
Ayaan Ali (knowing space facts—confident)
Samuel Blackwell (fantastic number task homework)
Lars Keyworth (perseverance with his can work)
Daisy Hill (working hard during paired reading)
Emma Hargraves and Megan Webb (for kindness towards other children)
Ollie Metcalfe (not giving up with his tricky work)
Zara Pratt (expressive brainbuilder work)
Every Child Counts: Every Child Contributes Issue 6
Cath Ellis
Skipping For Schools—Wednesday 21st October
We have invited Sports Skipping for Schools to host an all day skipping coaching
session where our children will have the opportunity to learn a range of skipping
skills. Skipping on a regular basis will help improve general levels of fitness and,
along with the different skipping skills and challenges taught during the day,
children will gain new found confidence in their own physical abilities. Parents are
invited to attend the presentation at the end of the day ay 2.50pm. Ropes will
also be available to buy on the day only at a cost of £4.00 each.
White Ribbons
Vacancy—Midday Supervisor
We are looking for a fun person who can work alongside the lunchtime staff to
ensure a safe, happy and active lunchtime. The person will be fully supported by
the other members of staff—5 hrs per week, working everyday 12.00pm – 1.00pm
Term Time Only. Closing date for applications ~ Friday 6th November 2015. The job
is advertised on the NYCC website or you can obtain an application pack from
school.
Vacancy—Kitchen Assistant
We have a vacancy for a general kitchen assistant to cover long term maternity
leave. It is for 2 hours per day (11.30am-1.30pm). To apply or ask any further
questions, please contact Vivienne Sadler on 07779788585.
Parents evening
Thanks to every parent for attending to discuss the learning of your child. Feed-
back from parents included requests for a maths calculations evening and a
meeting about assessment without levels. We shall arrange both for after half
term, dates to follow. Parents of pupils in years 2 and 6 were given copies of the
criteria for a child to be awarded ‘national standard’. There are higher expecta-
tions on the pupils in all areas of the curriculum. We also had out sample test ma-
terials for both these year groups, these are available on-line – just search for sam-
ple national tests. In the spring term we shall give you more details of the tests and
the teacher assessment.
Clubs
Apologies as a few parents thought that the clubs were on this week, but they
weren’t because of parents’ evenings. They are on next week.
Oak Class
We have had a report of head lice, please check your child's hair and treat. Also
could you bring in an old shirt for the children to wear when they are doing art.
APPLE This week in Apple class we have focused on
Phonics and Maths activities. In our Phonics sessions
we have covered c, ck, and e. The children have
read words and phrases and draw pictures. In
Maths we have worked on weight and counting
and comparing different sets of objects. Thank you
for coming to our parent consultation evenings and we hope you found them useful.
OAK This week Oak class have been working really hard on their grammar and have been
coming up with some fantastic adverbs and adjectives to make sentences more
interesting. We have also focused on using some tricky punctuation; using colons, semi-
colons, bullet points and brackets. We really enjoyed our trip to Ilkley Literary Festival to
listen to Steve Cole talk. He gave the class lots of great ideas for their writing. In maths
we have been thinking about multiples and factors and learning how to recognise a
prime number.
WILLOW
We have been working hard this week on our
place value skills and accuracy when working
with money. Some of us have been ‘purchasing’
sports cars at Willow Class garage and working
out how much we can save. We have also been
developing skills in newspaper writing and using
peer marking to check we have all used
our Top Tips effectively.
BEECH We are really enjoying our work on measuring length this week.
Here are Monty and Minny measuring their playdough ‘snakes’
with their bead strings. We have continued to look at non-fiction
books in literacy and have been labelling features of a fire engine
and writing facts about fire engines and fire fighters. We watched
a very exciting video clip of a fire being put out.
ASH Thank you to everyone that came to Ash class assembly. We really enjoyed sharing all of
our work with you. We worked hard to speak clearly and confidently. In Maths we have
been playing games on the computer to practice our rapid recall of number bonds. We
have been looking at recycling in Science and had lots of ideas about what we could
recycle! Please can I remind all parents that we do not bring toys into school (unless it is
for show and tell—see timetable). We have had lots of upset over toys getting lost or
swapped, so please can you ensure that your children do not bring them.
Lisa’s
Kitchen
Monday 2nd November
Cheese & Tomato Pasta
Syrup Sponge & Custard
Tuesday 3rd November
Meatloaf
Raspberry Bun
Wednesday 4th November
Meat & Potato Pie
Chocolate Mandarin
Sponge
Thursday 5th November
Chicken Korma
Toffee Apple Cake &
Custard
Friday 6th November
Battered Fish
Fruit Salad
Monday 19th October Fish Fingers
Jam Roly Poly & Custard
Tuesday 20th October Pasta Bolognaise
Flapjack
Wednesday 21st October
Chicken Pie
Arctic Roll & Peaches
Thursday 22nd October Beef Hot Pot
Biscuit, Cheese & Grapes
Friday 23rd October
Sausage, Potato & Beans
Halloween Biscuits
PTA Update and Forthcoming Party
Sally, Carolyn and myself would like to say a big hello to you all! We are
looking forward to some exciting times ahead with you all in the coming
school year. As always, we welcome any fundraising ideas from you and
volunteers are always welcomed with enthusiasm!
After our first informal meeting on Friday we have a few ideas that we
would like to share with you, the first being an Autumn fancy dress
party. This will be held in school on Friday 23rd October 3.30pm til
6 pm. Please see details on posters around school.
We are also asking for donations of any magazines, as current as possible,
that you have finished with (these can be adults or children's) We aim to
leave these in reception where you may purchase one for £1.50, a great
way to catch up on the latest celebrity gossip, gardening or children's
programmes at a much reduced price!
Finally, any jam jars that you may have, please bring them in! We have
many uses for them and donations throughout the year are appreciated.
Many thanks in advance, Claire Gautam
This is the main choice—there is
a vegetarian option available
every day (as per menus
sent at the start of term)
Football Report
Joey, Lewis, George, Jonny, Thomas, Alfie, Dylan, Corey, Neive and Kitty
all played in a Y3/4 football tournament at Sandylands last Friday. The
first match was 5 nil to us, then the 2nd match was 1 nil to them, 3rd
match was 3 nil to us, 4th match was 4 nil to them and then the 5th
match was 3 nil to us. Overall we came 4th . We were really proud of our
efforts. By Joey Driscoll
Can you Help?
World Prematurity Day is observed on the 17th November to raise
awareness of pre term birth and the care of premature babies world-
wide. Approximately 15 million babies are born prematurely every year, 1
in 10 around the world.
I volunteer on the neo natal unit at Bradford Royal Infirmary on behalf of
Bliss (Bliss.org.uk) and every year on World Prematurity Day we give gifts to
everyone currently spending time on the unit. This includes purple knitted
hats, one for each child. If any of our parents, grandparents or other
family members are a dab hand at knitting and would like to help out I
would be most grateful! I will need the hats for the first week in November
ideally (they must be purple!). If you need a pattern, please visit http://
www.fiberfluxblog.com/2011/02/free-pattern.html?m=1. Thank you.
Claire Gautam
Parking – Collection
Be aware that it is VERY busy at drop off and collection times. Please
consider parking at the village hall and walking up to school.
Assemblies
Next week: Thursday 22nd October it is Willow class assembly at 9am.
Friday 23rd October – achievement assembly, pupils are invited to bring
in something to show and speak about that they have achieved outside
school.
Oak and Willow class had been challenged to write a short story about
space on the back of a postcard. Amber Dobson won 2 tickets to go to
Settle Stories to see Tales from Cosmos—a story that was set in 1910
about a man shot down 9 suns so that we only had un in the whole wide
world. It was great.
Garg
rave C
of E
Prim
ary
School
Thurs
day 1
5th
Octo
ber
2015
Gargrave CE (VC) Primary School, Neville
Road, Gargrave, BD23 3RE
Tel: 01756 749433 Fax: 01756 749463
Email: admin@gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk
Website: www.gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk
See overleaf for
Holly Eyles (super reading)
Lola Dobson (excellent behaviour)
Ayaan Ali (knowing space facts—confident)
Samuel Blackwell (fantastic number task homework)
Lars Keyworth (perseverance with his can work)
Daisy Hill (working hard during paired reading)
Emma Hargraves and Megan Webb (for kindness towards other children)
Ollie Metcalfe (not giving up with his tricky work)
Zara Pratt (expressive brainbuilder work)
Every Child Counts: Every Child Contributes Issue 6
Emily Claxton
Skipping For Schools—Wednesday 21st October
We have invited Sports Skipping for Schools to host an all day skipping coaching
session where our children will have the opportunity to learn a range of skipping
skills. Skipping on a regular basis will help improve general levels of fitness and,
along with the different skipping skills and challenges taught during the day,
children will gain new found confidence in their own physical abilities. Parents are
invited to attend the presentation at the end of the day ay 2.50pm. Ropes will
also be available to buy on the day only at a cost of £4.00 each.
White Ribbons
Vacancy—Midday Supervisor
We are looking for a fun person who can work alongside the lunchtime staff to
ensure a safe, happy and active lunchtime. The person will be fully supported by
the other members of staff—5 hrs per week, working everyday 12.00pm – 1.00pm
Term Time Only. Closing date for applications ~ Friday 6th November 2015. The job
is advertised on the NYCC website or you can obtain an application pack from
school.
Vacancy—Kitchen Assistant
We have a vacancy for a general kitchen assistant to cover long term maternity
leave. It is for 2 hours per day (11.30am-1.30pm). To apply or ask any further
questions, please contact Vivienne Sadler on 07779788585.
Parents evening
Thanks to every parent for attending to discuss the learning of your child. Feed-
back from parents included requests for a maths calculations evening and a
meeting about assessment without levels. We shall arrange both for after half
term, dates to follow. Parents of pupils in years 2 and 6 were given copies of the
criteria for a child to be awarded ‘national standard’. There are higher expecta-
tions on the pupils in all areas of the curriculum. We also had out sample test ma-
terials for both these year groups, these are available on-line – just search for sam-
ple national tests. In the spring term we shall give you more details of the tests and
the teacher assessment.
Clubs
Apologies as a few parents thought that the clubs were on this week, but they
weren’t because of parents’ evenings. They are on next week.
Oak Class
We have had a report of head lice, please check your child's hair and treat. Also
could you bring in an old shirt for the children to wear when they are doing art.
APPLE This week in Apple class we have focused on
Phonics and Maths activities. In our Phonics sessions
we have covered c, ck, and e. The children have
read words and phrases and draw pictures. In
Maths we have worked on weight and counting
and comparing different sets of objects. Thank you
for coming to our parent consultation evenings and we hope you found them useful.
OAK This week Oak class have been working really hard on their grammar and have been
coming up with some fantastic adverbs and adjectives to make sentences more
interesting. We have also focused on using some tricky punctuation; using colons, semi-
colons, bullet points and brackets. We really enjoyed our trip to Ilkley Literary Festival to
listen to Steve Cole talk. He gave the class lots of great ideas for their writing. In maths
we have been thinking about multiples and factors and learning how to recognise a
prime number.
WILLOW
We have been working hard this week on our
place value skills and accuracy when working
with money. Some of us have been ‘purchasing’
sports cars at Willow Class garage and working
out how much we can save. We have also been
developing skills in newspaper writing and using
peer marking to check we have all used
our Top Tips effectively.
BEECH We are really enjoying our work on measuring length this week.
Here are Monty and Minny measuring their playdough ‘snakes’
with their bead strings. We have continued to look at non-fiction
books in literacy and have been labelling features of a fire engine
and writing facts about fire engines and fire fighters. We watched
a very exciting video clip of a fire being put out.
ASH Thank you to everyone that came to Ash class assembly. We really enjoyed sharing all of
our work with you. We worked hard to speak clearly and confidently. In Maths we have
been playing games on the computer to practice our rapid recall of number bonds. We
have been looking at recycling in Science and had lots of ideas about what we could
recycle! Please can I remind all parents that we do not bring toys into school (unless it is
for show and tell—see timetable). We have had lots of upset over toys getting lost or
swapped, so please can you ensure that your children do not bring them.
Lisa’s
Kitchen
Monday 2nd November
Cheese & Tomato Pasta
Syrup Sponge & Custard
Tuesday 3rd November
Meatloaf
Raspberry Bun
Wednesday 4th November
Meat & Potato Pie
Chocolate Mandarin
Sponge
Thursday 5th November
Chicken Korma
Toffee Apple Cake &
Custard
Friday 6th November
Battered Fish
Fruit Salad
Monday 19th October Fish Fingers
Jam Roly Poly & Custard
Tuesday 20th October Pasta Bolognaise
Flapjack
Wednesday 21st October
Chicken Pie
Arctic Roll & Peaches
Thursday 22nd October Beef Hot Pot
Biscuit, Cheese & Grapes
Friday 23rd October
Sausage, Potato & Beans
Halloween Biscuits
PTA Update and Forthcoming Party
Sally, Carolyn and myself would like to say a big hello to you all! We are
looking forward to some exciting times ahead with you all in the coming
school year. As always, we welcome any fundraising ideas from you and
volunteers are always welcomed with enthusiasm!
After our first informal meeting on Friday we have a few ideas that we
would like to share with you, the first being an Autumn fancy dress
party. This will be held in school on Friday 23rd October 3.30pm til
6 pm. Please see details on posters around school.
We are also asking for donations of any magazines, as current as possible,
that you have finished with (these can be adults or children's) We aim to
leave these in reception where you may purchase one for £1.50, a great
way to catch up on the latest celebrity gossip, gardening or children's
programmes at a much reduced price!
Finally, any jam jars that you may have, please bring them in! We have
many uses for them and donations throughout the year are appreciated.
Many thanks in advance, Claire Gautam
This is the main choice—there is
a vegetarian option available
every day (as per menus
sent at the start of term)
Football Report
Joey, Lewis, George, Jonny, Thomas, Alfie, Dylan, Corey, Neive and Kitty
all played in a Y3/4 football tournament at Sandylands last Friday. The
first match was 5 nil to us, then the 2nd match was 1 nil to them, 3rd
match was 3 nil to us, 4th match was 4 nil to them and then the 5th
match was 3 nil to us. Overall we came 4th . We were really proud of our
efforts. By Joey Driscoll
Can you Help?
World Prematurity Day is observed on the 17th November to raise
awareness of pre term birth and the care of premature babies world-
wide. Approximately 15 million babies are born prematurely every year, 1
in 10 around the world.
I volunteer on the neo natal unit at Bradford Royal Infirmary on behalf of
Bliss (Bliss.org.uk) and every year on World Prematurity Day we give gifts to
everyone currently spending time on the unit. This includes purple knitted
hats, one for each child. If any of our parents, grandparents or other
family members are a dab hand at knitting and would like to help out I
would be most grateful! I will need the hats for the first week in November
ideally (they must be purple!). If you need a pattern, please visit http://
www.fiberfluxblog.com/2011/02/free-pattern.html?m=1. Thank you.
Claire Gautam
Parking – Collection
Be aware that it is VERY busy at drop off and collection times. Please
consider parking at the village hall and walking up to school.
Assemblies
Next week: Thursday 22nd October it is Willow class assembly at 9am.
Friday 23rd October – achievement assembly, pupils are invited to bring
in something to show and speak about that they have achieved outside
school.
Oak and Willow class had been challenged to write a short story about
space on the back of a postcard. Amber Dobson won 2 tickets to go to
Settle Stories to see Tales from Cosmos—a story that was set in 1910
about a man shot down 9 suns so that we only had un in the whole wide
world. It was great.
Garg
rave C
of E
Prim
ary
School
Thurs
day 1
5th
Octo
ber
2015
Gargrave CE (VC) Primary School, Neville
Road, Gargrave, BD23 3RE
Tel: 01756 749433 Fax: 01756 749463
Email: admin@gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk
Website: www.gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk
See overleaf for
Holly Eyles (super reading)
Lola Dobson (excellent behaviour)
Ayaan Ali (knowing space facts—confident)
Samuel Blackwell (fantastic number task homework)
Lars Keyworth (perseverance with his can work)
Daisy Hill (working hard during paired reading)
Emma Hargraves and Megan Webb (for kindness towards other children)
Ollie Metcalfe (not giving up with his tricky work)
Zara Pratt (expressive brainbuilder work)
Every Child Counts: Every Child Contributes Issue 6
Daniel & Emma Wills
Skipping For Schools—Wednesday 21st October
We have invited Sports Skipping for Schools to host an all day skipping coaching
session where our children will have the opportunity to learn a range of skipping
skills. Skipping on a regular basis will help improve general levels of fitness and,
along with the different skipping skills and challenges taught during the day,
children will gain new found confidence in their own physical abilities. Parents are
invited to attend the presentation at the end of the day ay 2.50pm. Ropes will
also be available to buy on the day only at a cost of £4.00 each.
White Ribbons
Vacancy—Midday Supervisor
We are looking for a fun person who can work alongside the lunchtime staff to
ensure a safe, happy and active lunchtime. The person will be fully supported by
the other members of staff—5 hrs per week, working everyday 12.00pm – 1.00pm
Term Time Only. Closing date for applications ~ Friday 6th November 2015. The job
is advertised on the NYCC website or you can obtain an application pack from
school.
Vacancy—Kitchen Assistant
We have a vacancy for a general kitchen assistant to cover long term maternity
leave. It is for 2 hours per day (11.30am-1.30pm). To apply or ask any further
questions, please contact Vivienne Sadler on 07779788585.
Parents evening
Thanks to every parent for attending to discuss the learning of your child. Feed-
back from parents included requests for a maths calculations evening and a
meeting about assessment without levels. We shall arrange both for after half
term, dates to follow. Parents of pupils in years 2 and 6 were given copies of the
criteria for a child to be awarded ‘national standard’. There are higher expecta-
tions on the pupils in all areas of the curriculum. We also had out sample test ma-
terials for both these year groups, these are available on-line – just search for sam-
ple national tests. In the spring term we shall give you more details of the tests and
the teacher assessment.
Clubs
Apologies as a few parents thought that the clubs were on this week, but they
weren’t because of parents’ evenings. They are on next week.
Oak Class
We have had a report of head lice, please check your child's hair and treat. Also
could you bring in an old shirt for the children to wear when they are doing art.
APPLE This week in Apple class we have focused on
Phonics and Maths activities. In our Phonics sessions
we have covered c, ck, and e. The children have
read words and phrases and draw pictures. In
Maths we have worked on weight and counting
and comparing different sets of objects. Thank you
for coming to our parent consultation evenings and we hope you found them useful.
OAK This week Oak class have been working really hard on their grammar and have been
coming up with some fantastic adverbs and adjectives to make sentences more
interesting. We have also focused on using some tricky punctuation; using colons, semi-
colons, bullet points and brackets. We really enjoyed our trip to Ilkley Literary Festival to
listen to Steve Cole talk. He gave the class lots of great ideas for their writing. In maths
we have been thinking about multiples and factors and learning how to recognise a
prime number.
WILLOW
We have been working hard this week on our
place value skills and accuracy when working
with money. Some of us have been ‘purchasing’
sports cars at Willow Class garage and working
out how much we can save. We have also been
developing skills in newspaper writing and using
peer marking to check we have all used
our Top Tips effectively.
BEECH We are really enjoying our work on measuring length this week.
Here are Monty and Minny measuring their playdough ‘snakes’
with their bead strings. We have continued to look at non-fiction
books in literacy and have been labelling features of a fire engine
and writing facts about fire engines and fire fighters. We watched
a very exciting video clip of a fire being put out.
ASH Thank you to everyone that came to Ash class assembly. We really enjoyed sharing all of
our work with you. We worked hard to speak clearly and confidently. In Maths we have
been playing games on the computer to practice our rapid recall of number bonds. We
have been looking at recycling in Science and had lots of ideas about what we could
recycle! Please can I remind all parents that we do not bring toys into school (unless it is
for show and tell—see timetable). We have had lots of upset over toys getting lost or
swapped, so please can you ensure that your children do not bring them.
Lisa’s
Kitchen
Monday 2nd November
Cheese & Tomato Pasta
Syrup Sponge & Custard
Tuesday 3rd November
Meatloaf
Raspberry Bun
Wednesday 4th November
Meat & Potato Pie
Chocolate Mandarin
Sponge
Thursday 5th November
Chicken Korma
Toffee Apple Cake &
Custard
Friday 6th November
Battered Fish
Fruit Salad
Monday 19th October Fish Fingers
Jam Roly Poly & Custard
Tuesday 20th October Pasta Bolognaise
Flapjack
Wednesday 21st October
Chicken Pie
Arctic Roll & Peaches
Thursday 22nd October Beef Hot Pot
Biscuit, Cheese & Grapes
Friday 23rd October
Sausage, Potato & Beans
Halloween Biscuits
PTA Update and Forthcoming Party
Sally, Carolyn and myself would like to say a big hello to you all! We are
looking forward to some exciting times ahead with you all in the coming
school year. As always, we welcome any fundraising ideas from you and
volunteers are always welcomed with enthusiasm!
After our first informal meeting on Friday we have a few ideas that we
would like to share with you, the first being an Autumn fancy dress
party. This will be held in school on Friday 23rd October 3.30pm til
6 pm. Please see details on posters around school.
We are also asking for donations of any magazines, as current as possible,
that you have finished with (these can be adults or children's) We aim to
leave these in reception where you may purchase one for £1.50, a great
way to catch up on the latest celebrity gossip, gardening or children's
programmes at a much reduced price!
Finally, any jam jars that you may have, please bring them in! We have
many uses for them and donations throughout the year are appreciated.
Many thanks in advance, Claire Gautam
This is the main choice—there is
a vegetarian option available
every day (as per menus
sent at the start of term)
Football Report
Joey, Lewis, George, Jonny, Thomas, Alfie, Dylan, Corey, Neive and Kitty
all played in a Y3/4 football tournament at Sandylands last Friday. The
first match was 5 nil to us, then the 2nd match was 1 nil to them, 3rd
match was 3 nil to us, 4th match was 4 nil to them and then the 5th
match was 3 nil to us. Overall we came 4th . We were really proud of our
efforts. By Joey Driscoll
Can you Help?
World Prematurity Day is observed on the 17th November to raise
awareness of pre term birth and the care of premature babies world-
wide. Approximately 15 million babies are born prematurely every year, 1
in 10 around the world.
I volunteer on the neo natal unit at Bradford Royal Infirmary on behalf of
Bliss (Bliss.org.uk) and every year on World Prematurity Day we give gifts to
everyone currently spending time on the unit. This includes purple knitted
hats, one for each child. If any of our parents, grandparents or other
family members are a dab hand at knitting and would like to help out I
would be most grateful! I will need the hats for the first week in November
ideally (they must be purple!). If you need a pattern, please visit http://
www.fiberfluxblog.com/2011/02/free-pattern.html?m=1. Thank you.
Claire Gautam
Parking – Collection
Be aware that it is VERY busy at drop off and collection times. Please
consider parking at the village hall and walking up to school.
Assemblies
Next week: Thursday 22nd October it is Willow class assembly at 9am.
Friday 23rd October – achievement assembly, pupils are invited to bring
in something to show and speak about that they have achieved outside
school.
Oak and Willow class had been challenged to write a short story about
space on the back of a postcard. Amber Dobson won 2 tickets to go to
Settle Stories to see Tales from Cosmos—a story that was set in 1910
about a man shot down 9 suns so that we only had un in the whole wide
world. It was great.
Garg
rave C
of E
Prim
ary
School
Thurs
day 1
5th
Octo
ber
2015
Gargrave CE (VC) Primary School, Neville
Road, Gargrave, BD23 3RE
Tel: 01756 749433 Fax: 01756 749463
Email: admin@gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk
Website: www.gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk
See overleaf for
Holly Eyles (super reading)
Lola Dobson (excellent behaviour)
Ayaan Ali (knowing space facts—confident)
Samuel Blackwell (fantastic number task homework)
Lars Keyworth (perseverance with his can work)
Daisy Hill (working hard during paired reading)
Emma Hargraves and Megan Webb (for kindness towards other children)
Ollie Metcalfe (not giving up with his tricky work)
Zara Pratt (expressive brainbuilder work)
Every Child Counts: Every Child Contributes Issue 6
Beth & Neive Roberts
Skipping For Schools—Wednesday 21st October
We have invited Sports Skipping for Schools to host an all day skipping coaching
session where our children will have the opportunity to learn a range of skipping
skills. Skipping on a regular basis will help improve general levels of fitness and,
along with the different skipping skills and challenges taught during the day,
children will gain new found confidence in their own physical abilities. Parents are
invited to attend the presentation at the end of the day ay 2.50pm. Ropes will
also be available to buy on the day only at a cost of £4.00 each.
White Ribbons
Vacancy—Midday Supervisor
We are looking for a fun person who can work alongside the lunchtime staff to
ensure a safe, happy and active lunchtime. The person will be fully supported by
the other members of staff—5 hrs per week, working everyday 12.00pm – 1.00pm
Term Time Only. Closing date for applications ~ Friday 6th November 2015. The job
is advertised on the NYCC website or you can obtain an application pack from
school.
Vacancy—Kitchen Assistant
We have a vacancy for a general kitchen assistant to cover long term maternity
leave. It is for 2 hours per day (11.30am-1.30pm). To apply or ask any further
questions, please contact Vivienne Sadler on 07779788585.
Parents evening
Thanks to every parent for attending to discuss the learning of your child. Feed-
back from parents included requests for a maths calculations evening and a
meeting about assessment without levels. We shall arrange both for after half
term, dates to follow. Parents of pupils in years 2 and 6 were given copies of the
criteria for a child to be awarded ‘national standard’. There are higher expecta-
tions on the pupils in all areas of the curriculum. We also had out sample test ma-
terials for both these year groups, these are available on-line – just search for sam-
ple national tests. In the spring term we shall give you more details of the tests and
the teacher assessment.
Clubs
Apologies as a few parents thought that the clubs were on this week, but they
weren’t because of parents’ evenings. They are on next week.
Oak Class
We have had a report of head lice, please check your child's hair and treat. Also
could you bring in an old shirt for the children to wear when they are doing art.
APPLE This week in Apple class we have focused on
Phonics and Maths activities. In our Phonics sessions
we have covered c, ck, and e. The children have
read words and phrases and draw pictures. In
Maths we have worked on weight and counting
and comparing different sets of objects. Thank you
for coming to our parent consultation evenings and we hope you found them useful.
OAK This week Oak class have been working really hard on their grammar and have been
coming up with some fantastic adverbs and adjectives to make sentences more
interesting. We have also focused on using some tricky punctuation; using colons, semi-
colons, bullet points and brackets. We really enjoyed our trip to Ilkley Literary Festival to
listen to Steve Cole talk. He gave the class lots of great ideas for their writing. In maths
we have been thinking about multiples and factors and learning how to recognise a
prime number.
WILLOW
We have been working hard this week on our
place value skills and accuracy when working
with money. Some of us have been ‘purchasing’
sports cars at Willow Class garage and working
out how much we can save. We have also been
developing skills in newspaper writing and using
peer marking to check we have all used
our Top Tips effectively.
BEECH We are really enjoying our work on measuring length this week.
Here are Monty and Minny measuring their playdough ‘snakes’
with their bead strings. We have continued to look at non-fiction
books in literacy and have been labelling features of a fire engine
and writing facts about fire engines and fire fighters. We watched
a very exciting video clip of a fire being put out.
ASH Thank you to everyone that came to Ash class assembly. We really enjoyed sharing all of
our work with you. We worked hard to speak clearly and confidently. In Maths we have
been playing games on the computer to practice our rapid recall of number bonds. We
have been looking at recycling in Science and had lots of ideas about what we could
recycle! Please can I remind all parents that we do not bring toys into school (unless it is
for show and tell—see timetable). We have had lots of upset over toys getting lost or
swapped, so please can you ensure that your children do not bring them.
Lisa’s
Kitchen
Monday 2nd November
Cheese & Tomato Pasta
Syrup Sponge & Custard
Tuesday 3rd November
Meatloaf
Raspberry Bun
Wednesday 4th November
Meat & Potato Pie
Chocolate Mandarin
Sponge
Thursday 5th November
Chicken Korma
Toffee Apple Cake &
Custard
Friday 6th November
Battered Fish
Fruit Salad
Monday 19th October Fish Fingers
Jam Roly Poly & Custard
Tuesday 20th October Pasta Bolognaise
Flapjack
Wednesday 21st October
Chicken Pie
Arctic Roll & Peaches
Thursday 22nd October Beef Hot Pot
Biscuit, Cheese & Grapes
Friday 23rd October
Sausage, Potato & Beans
Halloween Biscuits
PTA Update and Forthcoming Party
Sally, Carolyn and myself would like to say a big hello to you all! We are
looking forward to some exciting times ahead with you all in the coming
school year. As always, we welcome any fundraising ideas from you and
volunteers are always welcomed with enthusiasm!
After our first informal meeting on Friday we have a few ideas that we
would like to share with you, the first being an Autumn fancy dress
party. This will be held in school on Friday 23rd October 3.30pm til
6 pm. Please see details on posters around school.
We are also asking for donations of any magazines, as current as possible,
that you have finished with (these can be adults or children's) We aim to
leave these in reception where you may purchase one for £1.50, a great
way to catch up on the latest celebrity gossip, gardening or children's
programmes at a much reduced price!
Finally, any jam jars that you may have, please bring them in! We have
many uses for them and donations throughout the year are appreciated.
Many thanks in advance, Claire Gautam
This is the main choice—there is
a vegetarian option available
every day (as per menus
sent at the start of term)
Football Report
Joey, Lewis, George, Jonny, Thomas, Alfie, Dylan, Corey, Neive and Kitty
all played in a Y3/4 football tournament at Sandylands last Friday. The
first match was 5 nil to us, then the 2nd match was 1 nil to them, 3rd
match was 3 nil to us, 4th match was 4 nil to them and then the 5th
match was 3 nil to us. Overall we came 4th . We were really proud of our
efforts. By Joey Driscoll
Can you Help?
World Prematurity Day is observed on the 17th November to raise
awareness of pre term birth and the care of premature babies world-
wide. Approximately 15 million babies are born prematurely every year, 1
in 10 around the world.
I volunteer on the neo natal unit at Bradford Royal Infirmary on behalf of
Bliss (Bliss.org.uk) and every year on World Prematurity Day we give gifts to
everyone currently spending time on the unit. This includes purple knitted
hats, one for each child. If any of our parents, grandparents or other
family members are a dab hand at knitting and would like to help out I
would be most grateful! I will need the hats for the first week in November
ideally (they must be purple!). If you need a pattern, please visit http://
www.fiberfluxblog.com/2011/02/free-pattern.html?m=1. Thank you.
Claire Gautam
Parking – Collection
Be aware that it is VERY busy at drop off and collection times. Please
consider parking at the village hall and walking up to school.
Assemblies
Next week: Thursday 22nd October it is Willow class assembly at 9am.
Friday 23rd October – achievement assembly, pupils are invited to bring
in something to show and speak about that they have achieved outside
school.
Oak and Willow class had been challenged to write a short story about
space on the back of a postcard. Amber Dobson won 2 tickets to go to
Settle Stories to see Tales from Cosmos—a story that was set in 1910
about a man shot down 9 suns so that we only had un in the whole wide
world. It was great.
Garg
rave C
of E
Prim
ary
School
Thurs
day 1
5th
Octo
ber
2015
Gargrave CE (VC) Primary School, Neville
Road, Gargrave, BD23 3RE
Tel: 01756 749433 Fax: 01756 749463
Email: admin@gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk
Website: www.gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk
See overleaf for
Holly Eyles (super reading)
Lola Dobson (excellent behaviour)
Ayaan Ali (knowing space facts—confident)
Samuel Blackwell (fantastic number task homework)
Lars Keyworth (perseverance with his can work)
Daisy Hill (working hard during paired reading)
Emma Hargraves and Megan Webb (for kindness towards other children)
Ollie Metcalfe (not giving up with his tricky work)
Zara Pratt (expressive brainbuilder work)
Every Child Counts: Every Child Contributes Issue 6
Isaac, Kitty & Minny Turner
Skipping For Schools—Wednesday 21st October
We have invited Sports Skipping for Schools to host an all day skipping coaching
session where our children will have the opportunity to learn a range of skipping
skills. Skipping on a regular basis will help improve general levels of fitness and,
along with the different skipping skills and challenges taught during the day,
children will gain new found confidence in their own physical abilities. Parents are
invited to attend the presentation at the end of the day ay 2.50pm. Ropes will
also be available to buy on the day only at a cost of £4.00 each.
White Ribbons
Vacancy—Midday Supervisor
We are looking for a fun person who can work alongside the lunchtime staff to
ensure a safe, happy and active lunchtime. The person will be fully supported by
the other members of staff—5 hrs per week, working everyday 12.00pm – 1.00pm
Term Time Only. Closing date for applications ~ Friday 6th November 2015. The job
is advertised on the NYCC website or you can obtain an application pack from
school.
Vacancy—Kitchen Assistant
We have a vacancy for a general kitchen assistant to cover long term maternity
leave. It is for 2 hours per day (11.30am-1.30pm). To apply or ask any further
questions, please contact Vivienne Sadler on 07779788585.
Parents evening
Thanks to every parent for attending to discuss the learning of your child. Feed-
back from parents included requests for a maths calculations evening and a
meeting about assessment without levels. We shall arrange both for after half
term, dates to follow. Parents of pupils in years 2 and 6 were given copies of the
criteria for a child to be awarded ‘national standard’. There are higher expecta-
tions on the pupils in all areas of the curriculum. We also had out sample test ma-
terials for both these year groups, these are available on-line – just search for sam-
ple national tests. In the spring term we shall give you more details of the tests and
the teacher assessment.
Clubs
Apologies as a few parents thought that the clubs were on this week, but they
weren’t because of parents’ evenings. They are on next week.
Oak Class
We have had a report of head lice, please check your child's hair and treat. Also
could you bring in an old shirt for the children to wear when they are doing art.
APPLE This week in Apple class we have focused on
Phonics and Maths activities. In our Phonics sessions
we have covered c, ck, and e. The children have
read words and phrases and draw pictures. In
Maths we have worked on weight and counting
and comparing different sets of objects. Thank you
for coming to our parent consultation evenings and we hope you found them useful.
OAK This week Oak class have been working really hard on their grammar and have been
coming up with some fantastic adverbs and adjectives to make sentences more
interesting. We have also focused on using some tricky punctuation; using colons, semi-
colons, bullet points and brackets. We really enjoyed our trip to Ilkley Literary Festival to
listen to Steve Cole talk. He gave the class lots of great ideas for their writing. In maths
we have been thinking about multiples and factors and learning how to recognise a
prime number.
WILLOW
We have been working hard this week on our
place value skills and accuracy when working
with money. Some of us have been ‘purchasing’
sports cars at Willow Class garage and working
out how much we can save. We have also been
developing skills in newspaper writing and using
peer marking to check we have all used
our Top Tips effectively.
BEECH We are really enjoying our work on measuring length this week.
Here are Monty and Minny measuring their playdough ‘snakes’
with their bead strings. We have continued to look at non-fiction
books in literacy and have been labelling features of a fire engine
and writing facts about fire engines and fire fighters. We watched
a very exciting video clip of a fire being put out.
ASH Thank you to everyone that came to Ash class assembly. We really enjoyed sharing all of
our work with you. We worked hard to speak clearly and confidently. In Maths we have
been playing games on the computer to practice our rapid recall of number bonds. We
have been looking at recycling in Science and had lots of ideas about what we could
recycle! Please can I remind all parents that we do not bring toys into school (unless it is
for show and tell—see timetable). We have had lots of upset over toys getting lost or
swapped, so please can you ensure that your children do not bring them.
Lisa’s
Kitchen
Monday 2nd November
Cheese & Tomato Pasta
Syrup Sponge & Custard
Tuesday 3rd November
Meatloaf
Raspberry Bun
Wednesday 4th November
Meat & Potato Pie
Chocolate Mandarin
Sponge
Thursday 5th November
Chicken Korma
Toffee Apple Cake &
Custard
Friday 6th November
Battered Fish
Fruit Salad
Monday 19th October Fish Fingers
Jam Roly Poly & Custard
Tuesday 20th October Pasta Bolognaise
Flapjack
Wednesday 21st October
Chicken Pie
Arctic Roll & Peaches
Thursday 22nd October Beef Hot Pot
Biscuit, Cheese & Grapes
Friday 23rd October
Sausage, Potato & Beans
Halloween Biscuits
PTA Update and Forthcoming Party
Sally, Carolyn and myself would like to say a big hello to you all! We are
looking forward to some exciting times ahead with you all in the coming
school year. As always, we welcome any fundraising ideas from you and
volunteers are always welcomed with enthusiasm!
After our first informal meeting on Friday we have a few ideas that we
would like to share with you, the first being an Autumn fancy dress
party. This will be held in school on Friday 23rd October 3.30pm til
6 pm. Please see details on posters around school.
We are also asking for donations of any magazines, as current as possible,
that you have finished with (these can be adults or children's) We aim to
leave these in reception where you may purchase one for £1.50, a great
way to catch up on the latest celebrity gossip, gardening or children's
programmes at a much reduced price!
Finally, any jam jars that you may have, please bring them in! We have
many uses for them and donations throughout the year are appreciated.
Many thanks in advance, Claire Gautam
This is the main choice—there is
a vegetarian option available
every day (as per menus
sent at the start of term)
Football Report
Joey, Lewis, George, Jonny, Thomas, Alfie, Dylan, Corey, Neive and Kitty
all played in a Y3/4 football tournament at Sandylands last Friday. The
first match was 5 nil to us, then the 2nd match was 1 nil to them, 3rd
match was 3 nil to us, 4th match was 4 nil to them and then the 5th
match was 3 nil to us. Overall we came 4th . We were really proud of our
efforts. By Joey Driscoll
Can you Help?
World Prematurity Day is observed on the 17th November to raise
awareness of pre term birth and the care of premature babies world-
wide. Approximately 15 million babies are born prematurely every year, 1
in 10 around the world.
I volunteer on the neo natal unit at Bradford Royal Infirmary on behalf of
Bliss (Bliss.org.uk) and every year on World Prematurity Day we give gifts to
everyone currently spending time on the unit. This includes purple knitted
hats, one for each child. If any of our parents, grandparents or other
family members are a dab hand at knitting and would like to help out I
would be most grateful! I will need the hats for the first week in November
ideally (they must be purple!). If you need a pattern, please visit http://
www.fiberfluxblog.com/2011/02/free-pattern.html?m=1. Thank you.
Claire Gautam
Parking – Collection
Be aware that it is VERY busy at drop off and collection times. Please
consider parking at the village hall and walking up to school.
Assemblies
Next week: Thursday 22nd October it is Willow class assembly at 9am.
Friday 23rd October – achievement assembly, pupils are invited to bring
in something to show and speak about that they have achieved outside
school.
Oak and Willow class had been challenged to write a short story about
space on the back of a postcard. Amber Dobson won 2 tickets to go to
Settle Stories to see Tales from Cosmos—a story that was set in 1910
about a man shot down 9 suns so that we only had un in the whole wide
world. It was great.
Garg
rave C
of E
Prim
ary
School
Thurs
day 1
5th
Octo
ber
2015
Gargrave CE (VC) Primary School, Neville
Road, Gargrave, BD23 3RE
Tel: 01756 749433 Fax: 01756 749463
Email: admin@gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk
Website: www.gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk
See overleaf for
Holly Eyles (super reading)
Lola Dobson (excellent behaviour)
Ayaan Ali (knowing space facts—confident)
Samuel Blackwell (fantastic number task homework)
Lars Keyworth (perseverance with his can work)
Daisy Hill (working hard during paired reading)
Emma Hargraves and Megan Webb (for kindness towards other children)
Ollie Metcalfe (not giving up with his tricky work)
Zara Pratt (expressive brainbuilder work)
Every Child Counts: Every Child Contributes Issue 6
Lucas & Cara Shutt
Skipping For Schools—Wednesday 21st October
We have invited Sports Skipping for Schools to host an all day skipping coaching
session where our children will have the opportunity to learn a range of skipping
skills. Skipping on a regular basis will help improve general levels of fitness and,
along with the different skipping skills and challenges taught during the day,
children will gain new found confidence in their own physical abilities. Parents are
invited to attend the presentation at the end of the day ay 2.50pm. Ropes will
also be available to buy on the day only at a cost of £4.00 each.
White Ribbons
Vacancy—Midday Supervisor
We are looking for a fun person who can work alongside the lunchtime staff to
ensure a safe, happy and active lunchtime. The person will be fully supported by
the other members of staff—5 hrs per week, working everyday 12.00pm – 1.00pm
Term Time Only. Closing date for applications ~ Friday 6th November 2015. The job
is advertised on the NYCC website or you can obtain an application pack from
school.
Vacancy—Kitchen Assistant
We have a vacancy for a general kitchen assistant to cover long term maternity
leave. It is for 2 hours per day (11.30am-1.30pm). To apply or ask any further
questions, please contact Vivienne Sadler on 07779788585.
Parents evening
Thanks to every parent for attending to discuss the learning of your child. Feed-
back from parents included requests for a maths calculations evening and a
meeting about assessment without levels. We shall arrange both for after half
term, dates to follow. Parents of pupils in years 2 and 6 were given copies of the
criteria for a child to be awarded ‘national standard’. There are higher expecta-
tions on the pupils in all areas of the curriculum. We also had out sample test ma-
terials for both these year groups, these are available on-line – just search for sam-
ple national tests. In the spring term we shall give you more details of the tests and
the teacher assessment.
Clubs
Apologies as a few parents thought that the clubs were on this week, but they
weren’t because of parents’ evenings. They are on next week.
Oak Class
We have had a report of head lice, please check your child's hair and treat. Also
could you bring in an old shirt for the children to wear when they are doing art.
APPLE This week in Apple class we have focused on
Phonics and Maths activities. In our Phonics sessions
we have covered c, ck, and e. The children have
read words and phrases and draw pictures. In
Maths we have worked on weight and counting
and comparing different sets of objects. Thank you
for coming to our parent consultation evenings and we hope you found them useful.
OAK This week Oak class have been working really hard on their grammar and have been
coming up with some fantastic adverbs and adjectives to make sentences more
interesting. We have also focused on using some tricky punctuation; using colons, semi-
colons, bullet points and brackets. We really enjoyed our trip to Ilkley Literary Festival to
listen to Steve Cole talk. He gave the class lots of great ideas for their writing. In maths
we have been thinking about multiples and factors and learning how to recognise a
prime number.
WILLOW
We have been working hard this week on our
place value skills and accuracy when working
with money. Some of us have been ‘purchasing’
sports cars at Willow Class garage and working
out how much we can save. We have also been
developing skills in newspaper writing and using
peer marking to check we have all used
our Top Tips effectively.
BEECH We are really enjoying our work on measuring length this week.
Here are Monty and Minny measuring their playdough ‘snakes’
with their bead strings. We have continued to look at non-fiction
books in literacy and have been labelling features of a fire engine
and writing facts about fire engines and fire fighters. We watched
a very exciting video clip of a fire being put out.
ASH Thank you to everyone that came to Ash class assembly. We really enjoyed sharing all of
our work with you. We worked hard to speak clearly and confidently. In Maths we have
been playing games on the computer to practice our rapid recall of number bonds. We
have been looking at recycling in Science and had lots of ideas about what we could
recycle! Please can I remind all parents that we do not bring toys into school (unless it is
for show and tell—see timetable). We have had lots of upset over toys getting lost or
swapped, so please can you ensure that your children do not bring them.
Lisa’s
Kitchen
Monday 2nd November
Cheese & Tomato Pasta
Syrup Sponge & Custard
Tuesday 3rd November
Meatloaf
Raspberry Bun
Wednesday 4th November
Meat & Potato Pie
Chocolate Mandarin
Sponge
Thursday 5th November
Chicken Korma
Toffee Apple Cake &
Custard
Friday 6th November
Battered Fish
Fruit Salad
Monday 19th October Fish Fingers
Jam Roly Poly & Custard
Tuesday 20th October Pasta Bolognaise
Flapjack
Wednesday 21st October
Chicken Pie
Arctic Roll & Peaches
Thursday 22nd October Beef Hot Pot
Biscuit, Cheese & Grapes
Friday 23rd October
Sausage, Potato & Beans
Halloween Biscuits
PTA Update and Forthcoming Party
Sally, Carolyn and myself would like to say a big hello to you all! We are
looking forward to some exciting times ahead with you all in the coming
school year. As always, we welcome any fundraising ideas from you and
volunteers are always welcomed with enthusiasm!
After our first informal meeting on Friday we have a few ideas that we
would like to share with you, the first being an Autumn fancy dress
party. This will be held in school on Friday 23rd October 3.30pm til
6 pm. Please see details on posters around school.
We are also asking for donations of any magazines, as current as possible,
that you have finished with (these can be adults or children's) We aim to
leave these in reception where you may purchase one for £1.50, a great
way to catch up on the latest celebrity gossip, gardening or children's
programmes at a much reduced price!
Finally, any jam jars that you may have, please bring them in! We have
many uses for them and donations throughout the year are appreciated.
Many thanks in advance, Claire Gautam
This is the main choice—there is
a vegetarian option available
every day (as per menus
sent at the start of term)
Football Report
Joey, Lewis, George, Jonny, Thomas, Alfie, Dylan, Corey, Neive and Kitty
all played in a Y3/4 football tournament at Sandylands last Friday. The
first match was 5 nil to us, then the 2nd match was 1 nil to them, 3rd
match was 3 nil to us, 4th match was 4 nil to them and then the 5th
match was 3 nil to us. Overall we came 4th . We were really proud of our
efforts. By Joey Driscoll
Can you Help?
World Prematurity Day is observed on the 17th November to raise
awareness of pre term birth and the care of premature babies world-
wide. Approximately 15 million babies are born prematurely every year, 1
in 10 around the world.
I volunteer on the neo natal unit at Bradford Royal Infirmary on behalf of
Bliss (Bliss.org.uk) and every year on World Prematurity Day we give gifts to
everyone currently spending time on the unit. This includes purple knitted
hats, one for each child. If any of our parents, grandparents or other
family members are a dab hand at knitting and would like to help out I
would be most grateful! I will need the hats for the first week in November
ideally (they must be purple!). If you need a pattern, please visit http://
www.fiberfluxblog.com/2011/02/free-pattern.html?m=1. Thank you.
Claire Gautam
Parking – Collection
Be aware that it is VERY busy at drop off and collection times. Please
consider parking at the village hall and walking up to school.
Assemblies
Next week: Thursday 22nd October it is Willow class assembly at 9am.
Friday 23rd October – achievement assembly, pupils are invited to bring
in something to show and speak about that they have achieved outside
school.
Oak and Willow class had been challenged to write a short story about
space on the back of a postcard. Amber Dobson won 2 tickets to go to
Settle Stories to see Tales from Cosmos—a story that was set in 1910
about a man shot down 9 suns so that we only had un in the whole wide
world. It was great.
Garg
rave C
of E
Prim
ary
School
Thurs
day 1
5th
Octo
ber
2015
Gargrave CE (VC) Primary School, Neville
Road, Gargrave, BD23 3RE
Tel: 01756 749433 Fax: 01756 749463
Email: admin@gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk
Website: www.gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk
See overleaf for
Holly Eyles (super reading)
Lola Dobson (excellent behaviour)
Ayaan Ali (knowing space facts—confident)
Samuel Blackwell (fantastic number task homework)
Lars Keyworth (perseverance with his can work)
Daisy Hill (working hard during paired reading)
Emma Hargraves and Megan Webb (for kindness towards other children)
Ollie Metcalfe (not giving up with his tricky work)
Zara Pratt (expressive brainbuilder work)
Every Child Counts: Every Child Contributes Issue 6
Joshua & Crystal & Becca Ashworth
Skipping For Schools—Wednesday 21st October
We have invited Sports Skipping for Schools to host an all day skipping coaching
session where our children will have the opportunity to learn a range of skipping
skills. Skipping on a regular basis will help improve general levels of fitness and,
along with the different skipping skills and challenges taught during the day,
children will gain new found confidence in their own physical abilities. Parents are
invited to attend the presentation at the end of the day ay 2.50pm. Ropes will
also be available to buy on the day only at a cost of £4.00 each.
White Ribbons
Vacancy—Midday Supervisor
We are looking for a fun person who can work alongside the lunchtime staff to
ensure a safe, happy and active lunchtime. The person will be fully supported by
the other members of staff—5 hrs per week, working everyday 12.00pm – 1.00pm
Term Time Only. Closing date for applications ~ Friday 6th November 2015. The job
is advertised on the NYCC website or you can obtain an application pack from
school.
Vacancy—Kitchen Assistant
We have a vacancy for a general kitchen assistant to cover long term maternity
leave. It is for 2 hours per day (11.30am-1.30pm). To apply or ask any further
questions, please contact Vivienne Sadler on 07779788585.
Parents evening
Thanks to every parent for attending to discuss the learning of your child. Feed-
back from parents included requests for a maths calculations evening and a
meeting about assessment without levels. We shall arrange both for after half
term, dates to follow. Parents of pupils in years 2 and 6 were given copies of the
criteria for a child to be awarded ‘national standard’. There are higher expecta-
tions on the pupils in all areas of the curriculum. We also had out sample test ma-
terials for both these year groups, these are available on-line – just search for sam-
ple national tests. In the spring term we shall give you more details of the tests and
the teacher assessment.
Clubs
Apologies as a few parents thought that the clubs were on this week, but they
weren’t because of parents’ evenings. They are on next week.
Oak Class
We have had a report of head lice, please check your child's hair and treat. Also
could you bring in an old shirt for the children to wear when they are doing art.
APPLE This week in Apple class we have focused on
Phonics and Maths activities. In our Phonics sessions
we have covered c, ck, and e. The children have
read words and phrases and draw pictures. In
Maths we have worked on weight and counting
and comparing different sets of objects. Thank you
for coming to our parent consultation evenings and we hope you found them useful.
OAK This week Oak class have been working really hard on their grammar and have been
coming up with some fantastic adverbs and adjectives to make sentences more
interesting. We have also focused on using some tricky punctuation; using colons, semi-
colons, bullet points and brackets. We really enjoyed our trip to Ilkley Literary Festival to
listen to Steve Cole talk. He gave the class lots of great ideas for their writing. In maths
we have been thinking about multiples and factors and learning how to recognise a
prime number.
WILLOW
We have been working hard this week on our
place value skills and accuracy when working
with money. Some of us have been ‘purchasing’
sports cars at Willow Class garage and working
out how much we can save. We have also been
developing skills in newspaper writing and using
peer marking to check we have all used
our Top Tips effectively.
BEECH We are really enjoying our work on measuring length this week.
Here are Monty and Minny measuring their playdough ‘snakes’
with their bead strings. We have continued to look at non-fiction
books in literacy and have been labelling features of a fire engine
and writing facts about fire engines and fire fighters. We watched
a very exciting video clip of a fire being put out.
ASH Thank you to everyone that came to Ash class assembly. We really enjoyed sharing all of
our work with you. We worked hard to speak clearly and confidently. In Maths we have
been playing games on the computer to practice our rapid recall of number bonds. We
have been looking at recycling in Science and had lots of ideas about what we could
recycle! Please can I remind all parents that we do not bring toys into school (unless it is
for show and tell—see timetable). We have had lots of upset over toys getting lost or
swapped, so please can you ensure that your children do not bring them.
Lisa’s
Kitchen
Monday 2nd November
Cheese & Tomato Pasta
Syrup Sponge & Custard
Tuesday 3rd November
Meatloaf
Raspberry Bun
Wednesday 4th November
Meat & Potato Pie
Chocolate Mandarin
Sponge
Thursday 5th November
Chicken Korma
Toffee Apple Cake &
Custard
Friday 6th November
Battered Fish
Fruit Salad
Monday 19th October Fish Fingers
Jam Roly Poly & Custard
Tuesday 20th October Pasta Bolognaise
Flapjack
Wednesday 21st October
Chicken Pie
Arctic Roll & Peaches
Thursday 22nd October Beef Hot Pot
Biscuit, Cheese & Grapes
Friday 23rd October
Sausage, Potato & Beans
Halloween Biscuits
PTA Update and Forthcoming Party
Sally, Carolyn and myself would like to say a big hello to you all! We are
looking forward to some exciting times ahead with you all in the coming
school year. As always, we welcome any fundraising ideas from you and
volunteers are always welcomed with enthusiasm!
After our first informal meeting on Friday we have a few ideas that we
would like to share with you, the first being an Autumn fancy dress
party. This will be held in school on Friday 23rd October 3.30pm til
6 pm. Please see details on posters around school.
We are also asking for donations of any magazines, as current as possible,
that you have finished with (these can be adults or children's) We aim to
leave these in reception where you may purchase one for £1.50, a great
way to catch up on the latest celebrity gossip, gardening or children's
programmes at a much reduced price!
Finally, any jam jars that you may have, please bring them in! We have
many uses for them and donations throughout the year are appreciated.
Many thanks in advance, Claire Gautam
This is the main choice—there is
a vegetarian option available
every day (as per menus
sent at the start of term)
Football Report
Joey, Lewis, George, Jonny, Thomas, Alfie, Dylan, Corey, Neive and Kitty
all played in a Y3/4 football tournament at Sandylands last Friday. The
first match was 5 nil to us, then the 2nd match was 1 nil to them, 3rd
match was 3 nil to us, 4th match was 4 nil to them and then the 5th
match was 3 nil to us. Overall we came 4th . We were really proud of our
efforts. By Joey Driscoll
Can you Help?
World Prematurity Day is observed on the 17th November to raise
awareness of pre term birth and the care of premature babies world-
wide. Approximately 15 million babies are born prematurely every year, 1
in 10 around the world.
I volunteer on the neo natal unit at Bradford Royal Infirmary on behalf of
Bliss (Bliss.org.uk) and every year on World Prematurity Day we give gifts to
everyone currently spending time on the unit. This includes purple knitted
hats, one for each child. If any of our parents, grandparents or other
family members are a dab hand at knitting and would like to help out I
would be most grateful! I will need the hats for the first week in November
ideally (they must be purple!). If you need a pattern, please visit http://
www.fiberfluxblog.com/2011/02/free-pattern.html?m=1. Thank you.
Claire Gautam
Parking – Collection
Be aware that it is VERY busy at drop off and collection times. Please
consider parking at the village hall and walking up to school.
Assemblies
Next week: Thursday 22nd October it is Willow class assembly at 9am.
Friday 23rd October – achievement assembly, pupils are invited to bring
in something to show and speak about that they have achieved outside
school.
Oak and Willow class had been challenged to write a short story about
space on the back of a postcard. Amber Dobson won 2 tickets to go to
Settle Stories to see Tales from Cosmos—a story that was set in 1910
about a man shot down 9 suns so that we only had un in the whole wide
world. It was great.
Garg
rave C
of E
Prim
ary
School
Thurs
day 1
5th
Octo
ber
2015
Gargrave CE (VC) Primary School, Neville
Road, Gargrave, BD23 3RE
Tel: 01756 749433 Fax: 01756 749463
Email: admin@gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk
Website: www.gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk
See overleaf for
Holly Eyles (super reading)
Lola Dobson (excellent behaviour)
Ayaan Ali (knowing space facts—confident)
Samuel Blackwell (fantastic number task homework)
Lars Keyworth (perseverance with his can work)
Daisy Hill (working hard during paired reading)
Emma Hargraves and Megan Webb (for kindness towards other children)
Ollie Metcalfe (not giving up with his tricky work)
Zara Pratt (expressive brainbuilder work)
Every Child Counts: Every Child Contributes Issue 6
Vincent & Poppy Tetley
Skipping For Schools—Wednesday 21st October
We have invited Sports Skipping for Schools to host an all day skipping coaching
session where our children will have the opportunity to learn a range of skipping
skills. Skipping on a regular basis will help improve general levels of fitness and,
along with the different skipping skills and challenges taught during the day,
children will gain new found confidence in their own physical abilities. Parents are
invited to attend the presentation at the end of the day ay 2.50pm. Ropes will
also be available to buy on the day only at a cost of £4.00 each.
White Ribbons
Vacancy—Midday Supervisor
We are looking for a fun person who can work alongside the lunchtime staff to
ensure a safe, happy and active lunchtime. The person will be fully supported by
the other members of staff—5 hrs per week, working everyday 12.00pm – 1.00pm
Term Time Only. Closing date for applications ~ Friday 6th November 2015. The job
is advertised on the NYCC website or you can obtain an application pack from
school.
Vacancy—Kitchen Assistant
We have a vacancy for a general kitchen assistant to cover long term maternity
leave. It is for 2 hours per day (11.30am-1.30pm). To apply or ask any further
questions, please contact Vivienne Sadler on 07779788585.
Parents evening
Thanks to every parent for attending to discuss the learning of your child. Feed-
back from parents included requests for a maths calculations evening and a
meeting about assessment without levels. We shall arrange both for after half
term, dates to follow. Parents of pupils in years 2 and 6 were given copies of the
criteria for a child to be awarded ‘national standard’. There are higher expecta-
tions on the pupils in all areas of the curriculum. We also had out sample test ma-
terials for both these year groups, these are available on-line – just search for sam-
ple national tests. In the spring term we shall give you more details of the tests and
the teacher assessment.
Clubs
Apologies as a few parents thought that the clubs were on this week, but they
weren’t because of parents’ evenings. They are on next week.
Oak Class
We have had a report of head lice, please check your child's hair and treat. Also
could you bring in an old shirt for the children to wear when they are doing art.
APPLE This week in Apple class we have focused on
Phonics and Maths activities. In our Phonics sessions
we have covered c, ck, and e. The children have
read words and phrases and draw pictures. In
Maths we have worked on weight and counting
and comparing different sets of objects. Thank you
for coming to our parent consultation evenings and we hope you found them useful.
OAK This week Oak class have been working really hard on their grammar and have been
coming up with some fantastic adverbs and adjectives to make sentences more
interesting. We have also focused on using some tricky punctuation; using colons, semi-
colons, bullet points and brackets. We really enjoyed our trip to Ilkley Literary Festival to
listen to Steve Cole talk. He gave the class lots of great ideas for their writing. In maths
we have been thinking about multiples and factors and learning how to recognise a
prime number.
WILLOW
We have been working hard this week on our
place value skills and accuracy when working
with money. Some of us have been ‘purchasing’
sports cars at Willow Class garage and working
out how much we can save. We have also been
developing skills in newspaper writing and using
peer marking to check we have all used
our Top Tips effectively.
BEECH We are really enjoying our work on measuring length this week.
Here are Monty and Minny measuring their playdough ‘snakes’
with their bead strings. We have continued to look at non-fiction
books in literacy and have been labelling features of a fire engine
and writing facts about fire engines and fire fighters. We watched
a very exciting video clip of a fire being put out.
ASH Thank you to everyone that came to Ash class assembly. We really enjoyed sharing all of
our work with you. We worked hard to speak clearly and confidently. In Maths we have
been playing games on the computer to practice our rapid recall of number bonds. We
have been looking at recycling in Science and had lots of ideas about what we could
recycle! Please can I remind all parents that we do not bring toys into school (unless it is
for show and tell—see timetable). We have had lots of upset over toys getting lost or
swapped, so please can you ensure that your children do not bring them.
Lisa’s
Kitchen
Monday 2nd November
Cheese & Tomato Pasta
Syrup Sponge & Custard
Tuesday 3rd November
Meatloaf
Raspberry Bun
Wednesday 4th November
Meat & Potato Pie
Chocolate Mandarin
Sponge
Thursday 5th November
Chicken Korma
Toffee Apple Cake &
Custard
Friday 6th November
Battered Fish
Fruit Salad
Monday 19th October Fish Fingers
Jam Roly Poly & Custard
Tuesday 20th October Pasta Bolognaise
Flapjack
Wednesday 21st October
Chicken Pie
Arctic Roll & Peaches
Thursday 22nd October Beef Hot Pot
Biscuit, Cheese & Grapes
Friday 23rd October
Sausage, Potato & Beans
Halloween Biscuits
PTA Update and Forthcoming Party
Sally, Carolyn and myself would like to say a big hello to you all! We are
looking forward to some exciting times ahead with you all in the coming
school year. As always, we welcome any fundraising ideas from you and
volunteers are always welcomed with enthusiasm!
After our first informal meeting on Friday we have a few ideas that we
would like to share with you, the first being an Autumn fancy dress
party. This will be held in school on Friday 23rd October 3.30pm til
6 pm. Please see details on posters around school.
We are also asking for donations of any magazines, as current as possible,
that you have finished with (these can be adults or children's) We aim to
leave these in reception where you may purchase one for £1.50, a great
way to catch up on the latest celebrity gossip, gardening or children's
programmes at a much reduced price!
Finally, any jam jars that you may have, please bring them in! We have
many uses for them and donations throughout the year are appreciated.
Many thanks in advance, Claire Gautam
This is the main choice—there is
a vegetarian option available
every day (as per menus
sent at the start of term)
Football Report
Joey, Lewis, George, Jonny, Thomas, Alfie, Dylan, Corey, Neive and Kitty
all played in a Y3/4 football tournament at Sandylands last Friday. The
first match was 5 nil to us, then the 2nd match was 1 nil to them, 3rd
match was 3 nil to us, 4th match was 4 nil to them and then the 5th
match was 3 nil to us. Overall we came 4th . We were really proud of our
efforts. By Joey Driscoll
Can you Help?
World Prematurity Day is observed on the 17th November to raise
awareness of pre term birth and the care of premature babies world-
wide. Approximately 15 million babies are born prematurely every year, 1
in 10 around the world.
I volunteer on the neo natal unit at Bradford Royal Infirmary on behalf of
Bliss (Bliss.org.uk) and every year on World Prematurity Day we give gifts to
everyone currently spending time on the unit. This includes purple knitted
hats, one for each child. If any of our parents, grandparents or other
family members are a dab hand at knitting and would like to help out I
would be most grateful! I will need the hats for the first week in November
ideally (they must be purple!). If you need a pattern, please visit http://
www.fiberfluxblog.com/2011/02/free-pattern.html?m=1. Thank you.
Claire Gautam
Parking – Collection
Be aware that it is VERY busy at drop off and collection times. Please
consider parking at the village hall and walking up to school.
Assemblies
Next week: Thursday 22nd October it is Willow class assembly at 9am.
Friday 23rd October – achievement assembly, pupils are invited to bring
in something to show and speak about that they have achieved outside
school.
Oak and Willow class had been challenged to write a short story about
space on the back of a postcard. Amber Dobson won 2 tickets to go to
Settle Stories to see Tales from Cosmos—a story that was set in 1910
about a man shot down 9 suns so that we only had un in the whole wide
world. It was great.
Garg
rave C
of E
Prim
ary
School
Thurs
day 1
5th
Octo
ber
2015
Gargrave CE (VC) Primary School, Neville
Road, Gargrave, BD23 3RE
Tel: 01756 749433 Fax: 01756 749463
Email: admin@gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk
Website: www.gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk
See overleaf for
Holly Eyles (super reading)
Lola Dobson (excellent behaviour)
Ayaan Ali (knowing space facts—confident)
Samuel Blackwell (fantastic number task homework)
Lars Keyworth (perseverance with his can work)
Daisy Hill (working hard during paired reading)
Emma Hargraves and Megan Webb (for kindness towards other children)
Ollie Metcalfe (not giving up with his tricky work)
Zara Pratt (expressive brainbuilder work)
Every Child Counts: Every Child Contributes Issue 6
Evelyn & Grace Welsh
Skipping For Schools—Wednesday 21st October
We have invited Sports Skipping for Schools to host an all day skipping coaching
session where our children will have the opportunity to learn a range of skipping
skills. Skipping on a regular basis will help improve general levels of fitness and,
along with the different skipping skills and challenges taught during the day,
children will gain new found confidence in their own physical abilities. Parents are
invited to attend the presentation at the end of the day ay 2.50pm. Ropes will
also be available to buy on the day only at a cost of £4.00 each.
White Ribbons
Vacancy—Midday Supervisor
We are looking for a fun person who can work alongside the lunchtime staff to
ensure a safe, happy and active lunchtime. The person will be fully supported by
the other members of staff—5 hrs per week, working everyday 12.00pm – 1.00pm
Term Time Only. Closing date for applications ~ Friday 6th November 2015. The job
is advertised on the NYCC website or you can obtain an application pack from
school.
Vacancy—Kitchen Assistant
We have a vacancy for a general kitchen assistant to cover long term maternity
leave. It is for 2 hours per day (11.30am-1.30pm). To apply or ask any further
questions, please contact Vivienne Sadler on 07779788585.
Parents evening
Thanks to every parent for attending to discuss the learning of your child. Feed-
back from parents included requests for a maths calculations evening and a
meeting about assessment without levels. We shall arrange both for after half
term, dates to follow. Parents of pupils in years 2 and 6 were given copies of the
criteria for a child to be awarded ‘national standard’. There are higher expecta-
tions on the pupils in all areas of the curriculum. We also had out sample test ma-
terials for both these year groups, these are available on-line – just search for sam-
ple national tests. In the spring term we shall give you more details of the tests and
the teacher assessment.
Clubs
Apologies as a few parents thought that the clubs were on this week, but they
weren’t because of parents’ evenings. They are on next week.
Oak Class
We have had a report of head lice, please check your child's hair and treat. Also
could you bring in an old shirt for the children to wear when they are doing art.
APPLE This week in Apple class we have focused on
Phonics and Maths activities. In our Phonics sessions
we have covered c, ck, and e. The children have
read words and phrases and draw pictures. In
Maths we have worked on weight and counting
and comparing different sets of objects. Thank you
for coming to our parent consultation evenings and we hope you found them useful.
OAK This week Oak class have been working really hard on their grammar and have been
coming up with some fantastic adverbs and adjectives to make sentences more
interesting. We have also focused on using some tricky punctuation; using colons, semi-
colons, bullet points and brackets. We really enjoyed our trip to Ilkley Literary Festival to
listen to Steve Cole talk. He gave the class lots of great ideas for their writing. In maths
we have been thinking about multiples and factors and learning how to recognise a
prime number.
WILLOW
We have been working hard this week on our
place value skills and accuracy when working
with money. Some of us have been ‘purchasing’
sports cars at Willow Class garage and working
out how much we can save. We have also been
developing skills in newspaper writing and using
peer marking to check we have all used
our Top Tips effectively.
BEECH We are really enjoying our work on measuring length this week.
Here are Monty and Minny measuring their playdough ‘snakes’
with their bead strings. We have continued to look at non-fiction
books in literacy and have been labelling features of a fire engine
and writing facts about fire engines and fire fighters. We watched
a very exciting video clip of a fire being put out.
ASH Thank you to everyone that came to Ash class assembly. We really enjoyed sharing all of
our work with you. We worked hard to speak clearly and confidently. In Maths we have
been playing games on the computer to practice our rapid recall of number bonds. We
have been looking at recycling in Science and had lots of ideas about what we could
recycle! Please can I remind all parents that we do not bring toys into school (unless it is
for show and tell—see timetable). We have had lots of upset over toys getting lost or
swapped, so please can you ensure that your children do not bring them.
Lisa’s
Kitchen
Monday 2nd November
Cheese & Tomato Pasta
Syrup Sponge & Custard
Tuesday 3rd November
Meatloaf
Raspberry Bun
Wednesday 4th November
Meat & Potato Pie
Chocolate Mandarin
Sponge
Thursday 5th November
Chicken Korma
Toffee Apple Cake &
Custard
Friday 6th November
Battered Fish
Fruit Salad
Monday 19th October Fish Fingers
Jam Roly Poly & Custard
Tuesday 20th October Pasta Bolognaise
Flapjack
Wednesday 21st October
Chicken Pie
Arctic Roll & Peaches
Thursday 22nd October Beef Hot Pot
Biscuit, Cheese & Grapes
Friday 23rd October
Sausage, Potato & Beans
Halloween Biscuits
PTA Update and Forthcoming Party
Sally, Carolyn and myself would like to say a big hello to you all! We are
looking forward to some exciting times ahead with you all in the coming
school year. As always, we welcome any fundraising ideas from you and
volunteers are always welcomed with enthusiasm!
After our first informal meeting on Friday we have a few ideas that we
would like to share with you, the first being an Autumn fancy dress
party. This will be held in school on Friday 23rd October 3.30pm til
6 pm. Please see details on posters around school.
We are also asking for donations of any magazines, as current as possible,
that you have finished with (these can be adults or children's) We aim to
leave these in reception where you may purchase one for £1.50, a great
way to catch up on the latest celebrity gossip, gardening or children's
programmes at a much reduced price!
Finally, any jam jars that you may have, please bring them in! We have
many uses for them and donations throughout the year are appreciated.
Many thanks in advance, Claire Gautam
This is the main choice—there is
a vegetarian option available
every day (as per menus
sent at the start of term)
Football Report
Joey, Lewis, George, Jonny, Thomas, Alfie, Dylan, Corey, Neive and Kitty
all played in a Y3/4 football tournament at Sandylands last Friday. The
first match was 5 nil to us, then the 2nd match was 1 nil to them, 3rd
match was 3 nil to us, 4th match was 4 nil to them and then the 5th
match was 3 nil to us. Overall we came 4th . We were really proud of our
efforts. By Joey Driscoll
Can you Help?
World Prematurity Day is observed on the 17th November to raise
awareness of pre term birth and the care of premature babies world-
wide. Approximately 15 million babies are born prematurely every year, 1
in 10 around the world.
I volunteer on the neo natal unit at Bradford Royal Infirmary on behalf of
Bliss (Bliss.org.uk) and every year on World Prematurity Day we give gifts to
everyone currently spending time on the unit. This includes purple knitted
hats, one for each child. If any of our parents, grandparents or other
family members are a dab hand at knitting and would like to help out I
would be most grateful! I will need the hats for the first week in November
ideally (they must be purple!). If you need a pattern, please visit http://
www.fiberfluxblog.com/2011/02/free-pattern.html?m=1. Thank you.
Claire Gautam
Parking – Collection
Be aware that it is VERY busy at drop off and collection times. Please
consider parking at the village hall and walking up to school.
Assemblies
Next week: Thursday 22nd October it is Willow class assembly at 9am.
Friday 23rd October – achievement assembly, pupils are invited to bring
in something to show and speak about that they have achieved outside
school.
Oak and Willow class had been challenged to write a short story about
space on the back of a postcard. Amber Dobson won 2 tickets to go to
Settle Stories to see Tales from Cosmos—a story that was set in 1910
about a man shot down 9 suns so that we only had un in the whole wide
world. It was great.
Garg
rave C
of E
Prim
ary
School
Thurs
day 1
5th
Octo
ber
2015
Gargrave CE (VC) Primary School, Neville
Road, Gargrave, BD23 3RE
Tel: 01756 749433 Fax: 01756 749463
Email: admin@gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk
Website: www.gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk
See overleaf for
Holly Eyles (super reading)
Lola Dobson (excellent behaviour)
Ayaan Ali (knowing space facts—confident)
Samuel Blackwell (fantastic number task homework)
Lars Keyworth (perseverance with his can work)
Daisy Hill (working hard during paired reading)
Emma Hargraves and Megan Webb (for kindness towards other children)
Ollie Metcalfe (not giving up with his tricky work)
Zara Pratt (expressive brainbuilder work)
Every Child Counts: Every Child Contributes Issue 6
Andrew Papai
Skipping For Schools—Wednesday 21st October
We have invited Sports Skipping for Schools to host an all day skipping coaching
session where our children will have the opportunity to learn a range of skipping
skills. Skipping on a regular basis will help improve general levels of fitness and,
along with the different skipping skills and challenges taught during the day,
children will gain new found confidence in their own physical abilities. Parents are
invited to attend the presentation at the end of the day ay 2.50pm. Ropes will
also be available to buy on the day only at a cost of £4.00 each.
White Ribbons
Vacancy—Midday Supervisor
We are looking for a fun person who can work alongside the lunchtime staff to
ensure a safe, happy and active lunchtime. The person will be fully supported by
the other members of staff—5 hrs per week, working everyday 12.00pm – 1.00pm
Term Time Only. Closing date for applications ~ Friday 6th November 2015. The job
is advertised on the NYCC website or you can obtain an application pack from
school.
Vacancy—Kitchen Assistant
We have a vacancy for a general kitchen assistant to cover long term maternity
leave. It is for 2 hours per day (11.30am-1.30pm). To apply or ask any further
questions, please contact Vivienne Sadler on 07779788585.
Parents evening
Thanks to every parent for attending to discuss the learning of your child. Feed-
back from parents included requests for a maths calculations evening and a
meeting about assessment without levels. We shall arrange both for after half
term, dates to follow. Parents of pupils in years 2 and 6 were given copies of the
criteria for a child to be awarded ‘national standard’. There are higher expecta-
tions on the pupils in all areas of the curriculum. We also had out sample test ma-
terials for both these year groups, these are available on-line – just search for sam-
ple national tests. In the spring term we shall give you more details of the tests and
the teacher assessment.
Clubs
Apologies as a few parents thought that the clubs were on this week, but they
weren’t because of parents’ evenings. They are on next week.
Oak Class
We have had a report of head lice, please check your child's hair and treat. Also
could you bring in an old shirt for the children to wear when they are doing art.
APPLE This week in Apple class we have focused on
Phonics and Maths activities. In our Phonics sessions
we have covered c, ck, and e. The children have
read words and phrases and draw pictures. In
Maths we have worked on weight and counting
and comparing different sets of objects. Thank you
for coming to our parent consultation evenings and we hope you found them useful.
OAK This week Oak class have been working really hard on their grammar and have been
coming up with some fantastic adverbs and adjectives to make sentences more
interesting. We have also focused on using some tricky punctuation; using colons, semi-
colons, bullet points and brackets. We really enjoyed our trip to Ilkley Literary Festival to
listen to Steve Cole talk. He gave the class lots of great ideas for their writing. In maths
we have been thinking about multiples and factors and learning how to recognise a
prime number.
WILLOW
We have been working hard this week on our
place value skills and accuracy when working
with money. Some of us have been ‘purchasing’
sports cars at Willow Class garage and working
out how much we can save. We have also been
developing skills in newspaper writing and using
peer marking to check we have all used
our Top Tips effectively.
BEECH We are really enjoying our work on measuring length this week.
Here are Monty and Minny measuring their playdough ‘snakes’
with their bead strings. We have continued to look at non-fiction
books in literacy and have been labelling features of a fire engine
and writing facts about fire engines and fire fighters. We watched
a very exciting video clip of a fire being put out.
ASH Thank you to everyone that came to Ash class assembly. We really enjoyed sharing all of
our work with you. We worked hard to speak clearly and confidently. In Maths we have
been playing games on the computer to practice our rapid recall of number bonds. We
have been looking at recycling in Science and had lots of ideas about what we could
recycle! Please can I remind all parents that we do not bring toys into school (unless it is
for show and tell—see timetable). We have had lots of upset over toys getting lost or
swapped, so please can you ensure that your children do not bring them.
Lisa’s
Kitchen
Monday 2nd November
Cheese & Tomato Pasta
Syrup Sponge & Custard
Tuesday 3rd November
Meatloaf
Raspberry Bun
Wednesday 4th November
Meat & Potato Pie
Chocolate Mandarin
Sponge
Thursday 5th November
Chicken Korma
Toffee Apple Cake &
Custard
Friday 6th November
Battered Fish
Fruit Salad
Monday 19th October Fish Fingers
Jam Roly Poly & Custard
Tuesday 20th October Pasta Bolognaise
Flapjack
Wednesday 21st October
Chicken Pie
Arctic Roll & Peaches
Thursday 22nd October Beef Hot Pot
Biscuit, Cheese & Grapes
Friday 23rd October
Sausage, Potato & Beans
Halloween Biscuits
PTA Update and Forthcoming Party
Sally, Carolyn and myself would like to say a big hello to you all! We are
looking forward to some exciting times ahead with you all in the coming
school year. As always, we welcome any fundraising ideas from you and
volunteers are always welcomed with enthusiasm!
After our first informal meeting on Friday we have a few ideas that we
would like to share with you, the first being an Autumn fancy dress
party. This will be held in school on Friday 23rd October 3.30pm til
6 pm. Please see details on posters around school.
We are also asking for donations of any magazines, as current as possible,
that you have finished with (these can be adults or children's) We aim to
leave these in reception where you may purchase one for £1.50, a great
way to catch up on the latest celebrity gossip, gardening or children's
programmes at a much reduced price!
Finally, any jam jars that you may have, please bring them in! We have
many uses for them and donations throughout the year are appreciated.
Many thanks in advance, Claire Gautam
This is the main choice—there is
a vegetarian option available
every day (as per menus
sent at the start of term)
Football Report
Joey, Lewis, George, Jonny, Thomas, Alfie, Dylan, Corey, Neive and Kitty
all played in a Y3/4 football tournament at Sandylands last Friday. The
first match was 5 nil to us, then the 2nd match was 1 nil to them, 3rd
match was 3 nil to us, 4th match was 4 nil to them and then the 5th
match was 3 nil to us. Overall we came 4th . We were really proud of our
efforts. By Joey Driscoll
Can you Help?
World Prematurity Day is observed on the 17th November to raise
awareness of pre term birth and the care of premature babies world-
wide. Approximately 15 million babies are born prematurely every year, 1
in 10 around the world.
I volunteer on the neo natal unit at Bradford Royal Infirmary on behalf of
Bliss (Bliss.org.uk) and every year on World Prematurity Day we give gifts to
everyone currently spending time on the unit. This includes purple knitted
hats, one for each child. If any of our parents, grandparents or other
family members are a dab hand at knitting and would like to help out I
would be most grateful! I will need the hats for the first week in November
ideally (they must be purple!). If you need a pattern, please visit http://
www.fiberfluxblog.com/2011/02/free-pattern.html?m=1. Thank you.
Claire Gautam
Parking – Collection
Be aware that it is VERY busy at drop off and collection times. Please
consider parking at the village hall and walking up to school.
Assemblies
Next week: Thursday 22nd October it is Willow class assembly at 9am.
Friday 23rd October – achievement assembly, pupils are invited to bring
in something to show and speak about that they have achieved outside
school.
Oak and Willow class had been challenged to write a short story about
space on the back of a postcard. Amber Dobson won 2 tickets to go to
Settle Stories to see Tales from Cosmos—a story that was set in 1910
about a man shot down 9 suns so that we only had un in the whole wide
world. It was great.
Garg
rave C
of E
Prim
ary
School
Thurs
day 1
5th
Octo
ber
2015
Gargrave CE (VC) Primary School, Neville
Road, Gargrave, BD23 3RE
Tel: 01756 749433 Fax: 01756 749463
Email: admin@gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk
Website: www.gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk
See overleaf for
Holly Eyles (super reading)
Lola Dobson (excellent behaviour)
Ayaan Ali (knowing space facts—confident)
Samuel Blackwell (fantastic number task homework)
Lars Keyworth (perseverance with his can work)
Daisy Hill (working hard during paired reading)
Emma Hargraves and Megan Webb (for kindness towards other children)
Ollie Metcalfe (not giving up with his tricky work)
Zara Pratt (expressive brainbuilder work)
Every Child Counts: Every Child Contributes Issue 6
Max & George Butteree
Skipping For Schools—Wednesday 21st October
We have invited Sports Skipping for Schools to host an all day skipping coaching
session where our children will have the opportunity to learn a range of skipping
skills. Skipping on a regular basis will help improve general levels of fitness and,
along with the different skipping skills and challenges taught during the day,
children will gain new found confidence in their own physical abilities. Parents are
invited to attend the presentation at the end of the day ay 2.50pm. Ropes will
also be available to buy on the day only at a cost of £4.00 each.
White Ribbons
Vacancy—Midday Supervisor
We are looking for a fun person who can work alongside the lunchtime staff to
ensure a safe, happy and active lunchtime. The person will be fully supported by
the other members of staff—5 hrs per week, working everyday 12.00pm – 1.00pm
Term Time Only. Closing date for applications ~ Friday 6th November 2015. The job
is advertised on the NYCC website or you can obtain an application pack from
school.
Vacancy—Kitchen Assistant
We have a vacancy for a general kitchen assistant to cover long term maternity
leave. It is for 2 hours per day (11.30am-1.30pm). To apply or ask any further
questions, please contact Vivienne Sadler on 07779788585.
Parents evening
Thanks to every parent for attending to discuss the learning of your child. Feed-
back from parents included requests for a maths calculations evening and a
meeting about assessment without levels. We shall arrange both for after half
term, dates to follow. Parents of pupils in years 2 and 6 were given copies of the
criteria for a child to be awarded ‘national standard’. There are higher expecta-
tions on the pupils in all areas of the curriculum. We also had out sample test ma-
terials for both these year groups, these are available on-line – just search for sam-
ple national tests. In the spring term we shall give you more details of the tests and
the teacher assessment.
Clubs
Apologies as a few parents thought that the clubs were on this week, but they
weren’t because of parents’ evenings. They are on next week.
Oak Class
We have had a report of head lice, please check your child's hair and treat. Also
could you bring in an old shirt for the children to wear when they are doing art.
APPLE This week in Apple class we have focused on
Phonics and Maths activities. In our Phonics sessions
we have covered c, ck, and e. The children have
read words and phrases and draw pictures. In
Maths we have worked on weight and counting
and comparing different sets of objects. Thank you
for coming to our parent consultation evenings and we hope you found them useful.
OAK This week Oak class have been working really hard on their grammar and have been
coming up with some fantastic adverbs and adjectives to make sentences more
interesting. We have also focused on using some tricky punctuation; using colons, semi-
colons, bullet points and brackets. We really enjoyed our trip to Ilkley Literary Festival to
listen to Steve Cole talk. He gave the class lots of great ideas for their writing. In maths
we have been thinking about multiples and factors and learning how to recognise a
prime number.
WILLOW
We have been working hard this week on our
place value skills and accuracy when working
with money. Some of us have been ‘purchasing’
sports cars at Willow Class garage and working
out how much we can save. We have also been
developing skills in newspaper writing and using
peer marking to check we have all used
our Top Tips effectively.
BEECH We are really enjoying our work on measuring length this week.
Here are Monty and Minny measuring their playdough ‘snakes’
with their bead strings. We have continued to look at non-fiction
books in literacy and have been labelling features of a fire engine
and writing facts about fire engines and fire fighters. We watched
a very exciting video clip of a fire being put out.
ASH Thank you to everyone that came to Ash class assembly. We really enjoyed sharing all of
our work with you. We worked hard to speak clearly and confidently. In Maths we have
been playing games on the computer to practice our rapid recall of number bonds. We
have been looking at recycling in Science and had lots of ideas about what we could
recycle! Please can I remind all parents that we do not bring toys into school (unless it is
for show and tell—see timetable). We have had lots of upset over toys getting lost or
swapped, so please can you ensure that your children do not bring them.
Lisa’s
Kitchen
Monday 2nd November
Cheese & Tomato Pasta
Syrup Sponge & Custard
Tuesday 3rd November
Meatloaf
Raspberry Bun
Wednesday 4th November
Meat & Potato Pie
Chocolate Mandarin
Sponge
Thursday 5th November
Chicken Korma
Toffee Apple Cake &
Custard
Friday 6th November
Battered Fish
Fruit Salad
Monday 19th October Fish Fingers
Jam Roly Poly & Custard
Tuesday 20th October Pasta Bolognaise
Flapjack
Wednesday 21st October
Chicken Pie
Arctic Roll & Peaches
Thursday 22nd October Beef Hot Pot
Biscuit, Cheese & Grapes
Friday 23rd October
Sausage, Potato & Beans
Halloween Biscuits
PTA Update and Forthcoming Party
Sally, Carolyn and myself would like to say a big hello to you all! We are
looking forward to some exciting times ahead with you all in the coming
school year. As always, we welcome any fundraising ideas from you and
volunteers are always welcomed with enthusiasm!
After our first informal meeting on Friday we have a few ideas that we
would like to share with you, the first being an Autumn fancy dress
party. This will be held in school on Friday 23rd October 3.30pm til
6 pm. Please see details on posters around school.
We are also asking for donations of any magazines, as current as possible,
that you have finished with (these can be adults or children's) We aim to
leave these in reception where you may purchase one for £1.50, a great
way to catch up on the latest celebrity gossip, gardening or children's
programmes at a much reduced price!
Finally, any jam jars that you may have, please bring them in! We have
many uses for them and donations throughout the year are appreciated.
Many thanks in advance, Claire Gautam
This is the main choice—there is
a vegetarian option available
every day (as per menus
sent at the start of term)
Football Report
Joey, Lewis, George, Jonny, Thomas, Alfie, Dylan, Corey, Neive and Kitty
all played in a Y3/4 football tournament at Sandylands last Friday. The
first match was 5 nil to us, then the 2nd match was 1 nil to them, 3rd
match was 3 nil to us, 4th match was 4 nil to them and then the 5th
match was 3 nil to us. Overall we came 4th . We were really proud of our
efforts. By Joey Driscoll
Can you Help?
World Prematurity Day is observed on the 17th November to raise
awareness of pre term birth and the care of premature babies world-
wide. Approximately 15 million babies are born prematurely every year, 1
in 10 around the world.
I volunteer on the neo natal unit at Bradford Royal Infirmary on behalf of
Bliss (Bliss.org.uk) and every year on World Prematurity Day we give gifts to
everyone currently spending time on the unit. This includes purple knitted
hats, one for each child. If any of our parents, grandparents or other
family members are a dab hand at knitting and would like to help out I
would be most grateful! I will need the hats for the first week in November
ideally (they must be purple!). If you need a pattern, please visit http://
www.fiberfluxblog.com/2011/02/free-pattern.html?m=1. Thank you.
Claire Gautam
Parking – Collection
Be aware that it is VERY busy at drop off and collection times. Please
consider parking at the village hall and walking up to school.
Assemblies
Next week: Thursday 22nd October it is Willow class assembly at 9am.
Friday 23rd October – achievement assembly, pupils are invited to bring
in something to show and speak about that they have achieved outside
school.
Oak and Willow class had been challenged to write a short story about
space on the back of a postcard. Amber Dobson won 2 tickets to go to
Settle Stories to see Tales from Cosmos—a story that was set in 1910
about a man shot down 9 suns so that we only had un in the whole wide
world. It was great.
Garg
rave C
of E
Prim
ary
School
Thurs
day 1
5th
Octo
ber
2015
Gargrave CE (VC) Primary School, Neville
Road, Gargrave, BD23 3RE
Tel: 01756 749433 Fax: 01756 749463
Email: admin@gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk
Website: www.gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk
See overleaf for
Holly Eyles (super reading)
Lola Dobson (excellent behaviour)
Ayaan Ali (knowing space facts—confident)
Samuel Blackwell (fantastic number task homework)
Lars Keyworth (perseverance with his can work)
Daisy Hill (working hard during paired reading)
Emma Hargraves and Megan Webb (for kindness towards other children)
Ollie Metcalfe (not giving up with his tricky work)
Zara Pratt (expressive brainbuilder work)
Every Child Counts: Every Child Contributes Issue 6
Oliver Metcalfe
Skipping For Schools—Wednesday 21st October
We have invited Sports Skipping for Schools to host an all day skipping coaching
session where our children will have the opportunity to learn a range of skipping
skills. Skipping on a regular basis will help improve general levels of fitness and,
along with the different skipping skills and challenges taught during the day,
children will gain new found confidence in their own physical abilities. Parents are
invited to attend the presentation at the end of the day ay 2.50pm. Ropes will
also be available to buy on the day only at a cost of £4.00 each.
White Ribbons
Vacancy—Midday Supervisor
We are looking for a fun person who can work alongside the lunchtime staff to
ensure a safe, happy and active lunchtime. The person will be fully supported by
the other members of staff—5 hrs per week, working everyday 12.00pm – 1.00pm
Term Time Only. Closing date for applications ~ Friday 6th November 2015. The job
is advertised on the NYCC website or you can obtain an application pack from
school.
Vacancy—Kitchen Assistant
We have a vacancy for a general kitchen assistant to cover long term maternity
leave. It is for 2 hours per day (11.30am-1.30pm). To apply or ask any further
questions, please contact Vivienne Sadler on 07779788585.
Parents evening
Thanks to every parent for attending to discuss the learning of your child. Feed-
back from parents included requests for a maths calculations evening and a
meeting about assessment without levels. We shall arrange both for after half
term, dates to follow. Parents of pupils in years 2 and 6 were given copies of the
criteria for a child to be awarded ‘national standard’. There are higher expecta-
tions on the pupils in all areas of the curriculum. We also had out sample test ma-
terials for both these year groups, these are available on-line – just search for sam-
ple national tests. In the spring term we shall give you more details of the tests and
the teacher assessment.
Clubs
Apologies as a few parents thought that the clubs were on this week, but they
weren’t because of parents’ evenings. They are on next week.
Oak Class
We have had a report of head lice, please check your child's hair and treat. Also
could you bring in an old shirt for the children to wear when they are doing art.
APPLE This week in Apple class we have focused on
Phonics and Maths activities. In our Phonics sessions
we have covered c, ck, and e. The children have
read words and phrases and draw pictures. In
Maths we have worked on weight and counting
and comparing different sets of objects. Thank you
for coming to our parent consultation evenings and we hope you found them useful.
OAK This week Oak class have been working really hard on their grammar and have been
coming up with some fantastic adverbs and adjectives to make sentences more
interesting. We have also focused on using some tricky punctuation; using colons, semi-
colons, bullet points and brackets. We really enjoyed our trip to Ilkley Literary Festival to
listen to Steve Cole talk. He gave the class lots of great ideas for their writing. In maths
we have been thinking about multiples and factors and learning how to recognise a
prime number.
WILLOW
We have been working hard this week on our
place value skills and accuracy when working
with money. Some of us have been ‘purchasing’
sports cars at Willow Class garage and working
out how much we can save. We have also been
developing skills in newspaper writing and using
peer marking to check we have all used
our Top Tips effectively.
BEECH We are really enjoying our work on measuring length this week.
Here are Monty and Minny measuring their playdough ‘snakes’
with their bead strings. We have continued to look at non-fiction
books in literacy and have been labelling features of a fire engine
and writing facts about fire engines and fire fighters. We watched
a very exciting video clip of a fire being put out.
ASH Thank you to everyone that came to Ash class assembly. We really enjoyed sharing all of
our work with you. We worked hard to speak clearly and confidently. In Maths we have
been playing games on the computer to practice our rapid recall of number bonds. We
have been looking at recycling in Science and had lots of ideas about what we could
recycle! Please can I remind all parents that we do not bring toys into school (unless it is
for show and tell—see timetable). We have had lots of upset over toys getting lost or
swapped, so please can you ensure that your children do not bring them.
Lisa’s
Kitchen
Monday 2nd November
Cheese & Tomato Pasta
Syrup Sponge & Custard
Tuesday 3rd November
Meatloaf
Raspberry Bun
Wednesday 4th November
Meat & Potato Pie
Chocolate Mandarin
Sponge
Thursday 5th November
Chicken Korma
Toffee Apple Cake &
Custard
Friday 6th November
Battered Fish
Fruit Salad
Monday 19th October Fish Fingers
Jam Roly Poly & Custard
Tuesday 20th October Pasta Bolognaise
Flapjack
Wednesday 21st October
Chicken Pie
Arctic Roll & Peaches
Thursday 22nd October Beef Hot Pot
Biscuit, Cheese & Grapes
Friday 23rd October
Sausage, Potato & Beans
Halloween Biscuits
PTA Update and Forthcoming Party
Sally, Carolyn and myself would like to say a big hello to you all! We are
looking forward to some exciting times ahead with you all in the coming
school year. As always, we welcome any fundraising ideas from you and
volunteers are always welcomed with enthusiasm!
After our first informal meeting on Friday we have a few ideas that we
would like to share with you, the first being an Autumn fancy dress
party. This will be held in school on Friday 23rd October 3.30pm til
6 pm. Please see details on posters around school.
We are also asking for donations of any magazines, as current as possible,
that you have finished with (these can be adults or children's) We aim to
leave these in reception where you may purchase one for £1.50, a great
way to catch up on the latest celebrity gossip, gardening or children's
programmes at a much reduced price!
Finally, any jam jars that you may have, please bring them in! We have
many uses for them and donations throughout the year are appreciated.
Many thanks in advance, Claire Gautam
This is the main choice—there is
a vegetarian option available
every day (as per menus
sent at the start of term)
Football Report
Joey, Lewis, George, Jonny, Thomas, Alfie, Dylan, Corey, Neive and Kitty
all played in a Y3/4 football tournament at Sandylands last Friday. The
first match was 5 nil to us, then the 2nd match was 1 nil to them, 3rd
match was 3 nil to us, 4th match was 4 nil to them and then the 5th
match was 3 nil to us. Overall we came 4th . We were really proud of our
efforts. By Joey Driscoll
Can you Help?
World Prematurity Day is observed on the 17th November to raise
awareness of pre term birth and the care of premature babies world-
wide. Approximately 15 million babies are born prematurely every year, 1
in 10 around the world.
I volunteer on the neo natal unit at Bradford Royal Infirmary on behalf of
Bliss (Bliss.org.uk) and every year on World Prematurity Day we give gifts to
everyone currently spending time on the unit. This includes purple knitted
hats, one for each child. If any of our parents, grandparents or other
family members are a dab hand at knitting and would like to help out I
would be most grateful! I will need the hats for the first week in November
ideally (they must be purple!). If you need a pattern, please visit http://
www.fiberfluxblog.com/2011/02/free-pattern.html?m=1. Thank you.
Claire Gautam
Parking – Collection
Be aware that it is VERY busy at drop off and collection times. Please
consider parking at the village hall and walking up to school.
Assemblies
Next week: Thursday 22nd October it is Willow class assembly at 9am.
Friday 23rd October – achievement assembly, pupils are invited to bring
in something to show and speak about that they have achieved outside
school.
Oak and Willow class had been challenged to write a short story about
space on the back of a postcard. Amber Dobson won 2 tickets to go to
Settle Stories to see Tales from Cosmos—a story that was set in 1910
about a man shot down 9 suns so that we only had un in the whole wide
world. It was great.
Garg
rave C
of E
Prim
ary
School
Thurs
day 1
5th
Octo
ber
2015
Gargrave CE (VC) Primary School, Neville
Road, Gargrave, BD23 3RE
Tel: 01756 749433 Fax: 01756 749463
Email: admin@gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk
Website: www.gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk
See overleaf for
Holly Eyles (super reading)
Lola Dobson (excellent behaviour)
Ayaan Ali (knowing space facts—confident)
Samuel Blackwell (fantastic number task homework)
Lars Keyworth (perseverance with his can work)
Daisy Hill (working hard during paired reading)
Emma Hargraves and Megan Webb (for kindness towards other children)
Ollie Metcalfe (not giving up with his tricky work)
Zara Pratt (expressive brainbuilder work)
Every Child Counts: Every Child Contributes Issue 6
Ellie Greenwood
Skipping For Schools—Wednesday 21st October
We have invited Sports Skipping for Schools to host an all day skipping coaching
session where our children will have the opportunity to learn a range of skipping
skills. Skipping on a regular basis will help improve general levels of fitness and,
along with the different skipping skills and challenges taught during the day,
children will gain new found confidence in their own physical abilities. Parents are
invited to attend the presentation at the end of the day ay 2.50pm. Ropes will
also be available to buy on the day only at a cost of £4.00 each.
White Ribbons
Vacancy—Midday Supervisor
We are looking for a fun person who can work alongside the lunchtime staff to
ensure a safe, happy and active lunchtime. The person will be fully supported by
the other members of staff—5 hrs per week, working everyday 12.00pm – 1.00pm
Term Time Only. Closing date for applications ~ Friday 6th November 2015. The job
is advertised on the NYCC website or you can obtain an application pack from
school.
Vacancy—Kitchen Assistant
We have a vacancy for a general kitchen assistant to cover long term maternity
leave. It is for 2 hours per day (11.30am-1.30pm). To apply or ask any further
questions, please contact Vivienne Sadler on 07779788585.
Parents evening
Thanks to every parent for attending to discuss the learning of your child. Feed-
back from parents included requests for a maths calculations evening and a
meeting about assessment without levels. We shall arrange both for after half
term, dates to follow. Parents of pupils in years 2 and 6 were given copies of the
criteria for a child to be awarded ‘national standard’. There are higher expecta-
tions on the pupils in all areas of the curriculum. We also had out sample test ma-
terials for both these year groups, these are available on-line – just search for sam-
ple national tests. In the spring term we shall give you more details of the tests and
the teacher assessment.
Clubs
Apologies as a few parents thought that the clubs were on this week, but they
weren’t because of parents’ evenings. They are on next week.
Oak Class
We have had a report of head lice, please check your child's hair and treat. Also
could you bring in an old shirt for the children to wear when they are doing art.
APPLE This week in Apple class we have focused on
Phonics and Maths activities. In our Phonics sessions
we have covered c, ck, and e. The children have
read words and phrases and draw pictures. In
Maths we have worked on weight and counting
and comparing different sets of objects. Thank you
for coming to our parent consultation evenings and we hope you found them useful.
OAK This week Oak class have been working really hard on their grammar and have been
coming up with some fantastic adverbs and adjectives to make sentences more
interesting. We have also focused on using some tricky punctuation; using colons, semi-
colons, bullet points and brackets. We really enjoyed our trip to Ilkley Literary Festival to
listen to Steve Cole talk. He gave the class lots of great ideas for their writing. In maths
we have been thinking about multiples and factors and learning how to recognise a
prime number.
WILLOW
We have been working hard this week on our
place value skills and accuracy when working
with money. Some of us have been ‘purchasing’
sports cars at Willow Class garage and working
out how much we can save. We have also been
developing skills in newspaper writing and using
peer marking to check we have all used
our Top Tips effectively.
BEECH We are really enjoying our work on measuring length this week.
Here are Monty and Minny measuring their playdough ‘snakes’
with their bead strings. We have continued to look at non-fiction
books in literacy and have been labelling features of a fire engine
and writing facts about fire engines and fire fighters. We watched
a very exciting video clip of a fire being put out.
ASH Thank you to everyone that came to Ash class assembly. We really enjoyed sharing all of
our work with you. We worked hard to speak clearly and confidently. In Maths we have
been playing games on the computer to practice our rapid recall of number bonds. We
have been looking at recycling in Science and had lots of ideas about what we could
recycle! Please can I remind all parents that we do not bring toys into school (unless it is
for show and tell—see timetable). We have had lots of upset over toys getting lost or
swapped, so please can you ensure that your children do not bring them.
Lisa’s
Kitchen
Monday 2nd November
Cheese & Tomato Pasta
Syrup Sponge & Custard
Tuesday 3rd November
Meatloaf
Raspberry Bun
Wednesday 4th November
Meat & Potato Pie
Chocolate Mandarin
Sponge
Thursday 5th November
Chicken Korma
Toffee Apple Cake &
Custard
Friday 6th November
Battered Fish
Fruit Salad
Monday 19th October Fish Fingers
Jam Roly Poly & Custard
Tuesday 20th October Pasta Bolognaise
Flapjack
Wednesday 21st October
Chicken Pie
Arctic Roll & Peaches
Thursday 22nd October Beef Hot Pot
Biscuit, Cheese & Grapes
Friday 23rd October
Sausage, Potato & Beans
Halloween Biscuits
PTA Update and Forthcoming Party
Sally, Carolyn and myself would like to say a big hello to you all! We are
looking forward to some exciting times ahead with you all in the coming
school year. As always, we welcome any fundraising ideas from you and
volunteers are always welcomed with enthusiasm!
After our first informal meeting on Friday we have a few ideas that we
would like to share with you, the first being an Autumn fancy dress
party. This will be held in school on Friday 23rd October 3.30pm til
6 pm. Please see details on posters around school.
We are also asking for donations of any magazines, as current as possible,
that you have finished with (these can be adults or children's) We aim to
leave these in reception where you may purchase one for £1.50, a great
way to catch up on the latest celebrity gossip, gardening or children's
programmes at a much reduced price!
Finally, any jam jars that you may have, please bring them in! We have
many uses for them and donations throughout the year are appreciated.
Many thanks in advance, Claire Gautam
This is the main choice—there is
a vegetarian option available
every day (as per menus
sent at the start of term)
Football Report
Joey, Lewis, George, Jonny, Thomas, Alfie, Dylan, Corey, Neive and Kitty
all played in a Y3/4 football tournament at Sandylands last Friday. The
first match was 5 nil to us, then the 2nd match was 1 nil to them, 3rd
match was 3 nil to us, 4th match was 4 nil to them and then the 5th
match was 3 nil to us. Overall we came 4th . We were really proud of our
efforts. By Joey Driscoll
Can you Help?
World Prematurity Day is observed on the 17th November to raise
awareness of pre term birth and the care of premature babies world-
wide. Approximately 15 million babies are born prematurely every year, 1
in 10 around the world.
I volunteer on the neo natal unit at Bradford Royal Infirmary on behalf of
Bliss (Bliss.org.uk) and every year on World Prematurity Day we give gifts to
everyone currently spending time on the unit. This includes purple knitted
hats, one for each child. If any of our parents, grandparents or other
family members are a dab hand at knitting and would like to help out I
would be most grateful! I will need the hats for the first week in November
ideally (they must be purple!). If you need a pattern, please visit http://
www.fiberfluxblog.com/2011/02/free-pattern.html?m=1. Thank you.
Claire Gautam
Parking – Collection
Be aware that it is VERY busy at drop off and collection times. Please
consider parking at the village hall and walking up to school.
Assemblies
Next week: Thursday 22nd October it is Willow class assembly at 9am.
Friday 23rd October – achievement assembly, pupils are invited to bring
in something to show and speak about that they have achieved outside
school.
Oak and Willow class had been challenged to write a short story about
space on the back of a postcard. Amber Dobson won 2 tickets to go to
Settle Stories to see Tales from Cosmos—a story that was set in 1910
about a man shot down 9 suns so that we only had un in the whole wide
world. It was great.
Garg
rave C
of E
Prim
ary
School
Thurs
day 1
5th
Octo
ber
2015
Gargrave CE (VC) Primary School, Neville
Road, Gargrave, BD23 3RE
Tel: 01756 749433 Fax: 01756 749463
Email: admin@gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk
Website: www.gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk
See overleaf for
Holly Eyles (super reading)
Lola Dobson (excellent behaviour)
Ayaan Ali (knowing space facts—confident)
Samuel Blackwell (fantastic number task homework)
Lars Keyworth (perseverance with his can work)
Daisy Hill (working hard during paired reading)
Emma Hargraves and Megan Webb (for kindness towards other children)
Ollie Metcalfe (not giving up with his tricky work)
Zara Pratt (expressive brainbuilder work)
Every Child Counts: Every Child Contributes Issue 6
Zoe Gaskell
Skipping For Schools—Wednesday 21st October
We have invited Sports Skipping for Schools to host an all day skipping coaching
session where our children will have the opportunity to learn a range of skipping
skills. Skipping on a regular basis will help improve general levels of fitness and,
along with the different skipping skills and challenges taught during the day,
children will gain new found confidence in their own physical abilities. Parents are
invited to attend the presentation at the end of the day ay 2.50pm. Ropes will
also be available to buy on the day only at a cost of £4.00 each.
White Ribbons
Vacancy—Midday Supervisor
We are looking for a fun person who can work alongside the lunchtime staff to
ensure a safe, happy and active lunchtime. The person will be fully supported by
the other members of staff—5 hrs per week, working everyday 12.00pm – 1.00pm
Term Time Only. Closing date for applications ~ Friday 6th November 2015. The job
is advertised on the NYCC website or you can obtain an application pack from
school.
Vacancy—Kitchen Assistant
We have a vacancy for a general kitchen assistant to cover long term maternity
leave. It is for 2 hours per day (11.30am-1.30pm). To apply or ask any further
questions, please contact Vivienne Sadler on 07779788585.
Parents evening
Thanks to every parent for attending to discuss the learning of your child. Feed-
back from parents included requests for a maths calculations evening and a
meeting about assessment without levels. We shall arrange both for after half
term, dates to follow. Parents of pupils in years 2 and 6 were given copies of the
criteria for a child to be awarded ‘national standard’. There are higher expecta-
tions on the pupils in all areas of the curriculum. We also had out sample test ma-
terials for both these year groups, these are available on-line – just search for sam-
ple national tests. In the spring term we shall give you more details of the tests and
the teacher assessment.
Clubs
Apologies as a few parents thought that the clubs were on this week, but they
weren’t because of parents’ evenings. They are on next week.
Oak Class
We have had a report of head lice, please check your child's hair and treat. Also
could you bring in an old shirt for the children to wear when they are doing art.
APPLE This week in Apple class we have focused on
Phonics and Maths activities. In our Phonics sessions
we have covered c, ck, and e. The children have
read words and phrases and draw pictures. In
Maths we have worked on weight and counting
and comparing different sets of objects. Thank you
for coming to our parent consultation evenings and we hope you found them useful.
OAK This week Oak class have been working really hard on their grammar and have been
coming up with some fantastic adverbs and adjectives to make sentences more
interesting. We have also focused on using some tricky punctuation; using colons, semi-
colons, bullet points and brackets. We really enjoyed our trip to Ilkley Literary Festival to
listen to Steve Cole talk. He gave the class lots of great ideas for their writing. In maths
we have been thinking about multiples and factors and learning how to recognise a
prime number.
WILLOW
We have been working hard this week on our
place value skills and accuracy when working
with money. Some of us have been ‘purchasing’
sports cars at Willow Class garage and working
out how much we can save. We have also been
developing skills in newspaper writing and using
peer marking to check we have all used
our Top Tips effectively.
BEECH We are really enjoying our work on measuring length this week.
Here are Monty and Minny measuring their playdough ‘snakes’
with their bead strings. We have continued to look at non-fiction
books in literacy and have been labelling features of a fire engine
and writing facts about fire engines and fire fighters. We watched
a very exciting video clip of a fire being put out.
ASH Thank you to everyone that came to Ash class assembly. We really enjoyed sharing all of
our work with you. We worked hard to speak clearly and confidently. In Maths we have
been playing games on the computer to practice our rapid recall of number bonds. We
have been looking at recycling in Science and had lots of ideas about what we could
recycle! Please can I remind all parents that we do not bring toys into school (unless it is
for show and tell—see timetable). We have had lots of upset over toys getting lost or
swapped, so please can you ensure that your children do not bring them.
Lisa’s
Kitchen
Monday 2nd November
Cheese & Tomato Pasta
Syrup Sponge & Custard
Tuesday 3rd November
Meatloaf
Raspberry Bun
Wednesday 4th November
Meat & Potato Pie
Chocolate Mandarin
Sponge
Thursday 5th November
Chicken Korma
Toffee Apple Cake &
Custard
Friday 6th November
Battered Fish
Fruit Salad
Monday 19th October Fish Fingers
Jam Roly Poly & Custard
Tuesday 20th October Pasta Bolognaise
Flapjack
Wednesday 21st October
Chicken Pie
Arctic Roll & Peaches
Thursday 22nd October Beef Hot Pot
Biscuit, Cheese & Grapes
Friday 23rd October
Sausage, Potato & Beans
Halloween Biscuits
PTA Update and Forthcoming Party
Sally, Carolyn and myself would like to say a big hello to you all! We are
looking forward to some exciting times ahead with you all in the coming
school year. As always, we welcome any fundraising ideas from you and
volunteers are always welcomed with enthusiasm!
After our first informal meeting on Friday we have a few ideas that we
would like to share with you, the first being an Autumn fancy dress
party. This will be held in school on Friday 23rd October 3.30pm til
6 pm. Please see details on posters around school.
We are also asking for donations of any magazines, as current as possible,
that you have finished with (these can be adults or children's) We aim to
leave these in reception where you may purchase one for £1.50, a great
way to catch up on the latest celebrity gossip, gardening or children's
programmes at a much reduced price!
Finally, any jam jars that you may have, please bring them in! We have
many uses for them and donations throughout the year are appreciated.
Many thanks in advance, Claire Gautam
This is the main choice—there is
a vegetarian option available
every day (as per menus
sent at the start of term)
Football Report
Joey, Lewis, George, Jonny, Thomas, Alfie, Dylan, Corey, Neive and Kitty
all played in a Y3/4 football tournament at Sandylands last Friday. The
first match was 5 nil to us, then the 2nd match was 1 nil to them, 3rd
match was 3 nil to us, 4th match was 4 nil to them and then the 5th
match was 3 nil to us. Overall we came 4th . We were really proud of our
efforts. By Joey Driscoll
Can you Help?
World Prematurity Day is observed on the 17th November to raise
awareness of pre term birth and the care of premature babies world-
wide. Approximately 15 million babies are born prematurely every year, 1
in 10 around the world.
I volunteer on the neo natal unit at Bradford Royal Infirmary on behalf of
Bliss (Bliss.org.uk) and every year on World Prematurity Day we give gifts to
everyone currently spending time on the unit. This includes purple knitted
hats, one for each child. If any of our parents, grandparents or other
family members are a dab hand at knitting and would like to help out I
would be most grateful! I will need the hats for the first week in November
ideally (they must be purple!). If you need a pattern, please visit http://
www.fiberfluxblog.com/2011/02/free-pattern.html?m=1. Thank you.
Claire Gautam
Parking – Collection
Be aware that it is VERY busy at drop off and collection times. Please
consider parking at the village hall and walking up to school.
Assemblies
Next week: Thursday 22nd October it is Willow class assembly at 9am.
Friday 23rd October – achievement assembly, pupils are invited to bring
in something to show and speak about that they have achieved outside
school.
Oak and Willow class had been challenged to write a short story about
space on the back of a postcard. Amber Dobson won 2 tickets to go to
Settle Stories to see Tales from Cosmos—a story that was set in 1910
about a man shot down 9 suns so that we only had un in the whole wide
world. It was great.
Garg
rave C
of E
Prim
ary
School
Thurs
day 1
5th
Octo
ber
2015
Gargrave CE (VC) Primary School, Neville
Road, Gargrave, BD23 3RE
Tel: 01756 749433 Fax: 01756 749463
Email: admin@gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk
Website: www.gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk
See overleaf for
Holly Eyles (super reading)
Lola Dobson (excellent behaviour)
Ayaan Ali (knowing space facts—confident)
Samuel Blackwell (fantastic number task homework)
Lars Keyworth (perseverance with his can work)
Daisy Hill (working hard during paired reading)
Emma Hargraves and Megan Webb (for kindness towards other children)
Ollie Metcalfe (not giving up with his tricky work)
Zara Pratt (expressive brainbuilder work)
Every Child Counts: Every Child Contributes Issue 6
Annie Faulkner
Skipping For Schools—Wednesday 21st October
We have invited Sports Skipping for Schools to host an all day skipping coaching
session where our children will have the opportunity to learn a range of skipping
skills. Skipping on a regular basis will help improve general levels of fitness and,
along with the different skipping skills and challenges taught during the day,
children will gain new found confidence in their own physical abilities. Parents are
invited to attend the presentation at the end of the day ay 2.50pm. Ropes will
also be available to buy on the day only at a cost of £4.00 each.
White Ribbons
Vacancy—Midday Supervisor
We are looking for a fun person who can work alongside the lunchtime staff to
ensure a safe, happy and active lunchtime. The person will be fully supported by
the other members of staff—5 hrs per week, working everyday 12.00pm – 1.00pm
Term Time Only. Closing date for applications ~ Friday 6th November 2015. The job
is advertised on the NYCC website or you can obtain an application pack from
school.
Vacancy—Kitchen Assistant
We have a vacancy for a general kitchen assistant to cover long term maternity
leave. It is for 2 hours per day (11.30am-1.30pm). To apply or ask any further
questions, please contact Vivienne Sadler on 07779788585.
Parents evening
Thanks to every parent for attending to discuss the learning of your child. Feed-
back from parents included requests for a maths calculations evening and a
meeting about assessment without levels. We shall arrange both for after half
term, dates to follow. Parents of pupils in years 2 and 6 were given copies of the
criteria for a child to be awarded ‘national standard’. There are higher expecta-
tions on the pupils in all areas of the curriculum. We also had out sample test ma-
terials for both these year groups, these are available on-line – just search for sam-
ple national tests. In the spring term we shall give you more details of the tests and
the teacher assessment.
Clubs
Apologies as a few parents thought that the clubs were on this week, but they
weren’t because of parents’ evenings. They are on next week.
Oak Class
We have had a report of head lice, please check your child's hair and treat. Also
could you bring in an old shirt for the children to wear when they are doing art.
APPLE This week in Apple class we have focused on
Phonics and Maths activities. In our Phonics sessions
we have covered c, ck, and e. The children have
read words and phrases and draw pictures. In
Maths we have worked on weight and counting
and comparing different sets of objects. Thank you
for coming to our parent consultation evenings and we hope you found them useful.
OAK This week Oak class have been working really hard on their grammar and have been
coming up with some fantastic adverbs and adjectives to make sentences more
interesting. We have also focused on using some tricky punctuation; using colons, semi-
colons, bullet points and brackets. We really enjoyed our trip to Ilkley Literary Festival to
listen to Steve Cole talk. He gave the class lots of great ideas for their writing. In maths
we have been thinking about multiples and factors and learning how to recognise a
prime number.
WILLOW
We have been working hard this week on our
place value skills and accuracy when working
with money. Some of us have been ‘purchasing’
sports cars at Willow Class garage and working
out how much we can save. We have also been
developing skills in newspaper writing and using
peer marking to check we have all used
our Top Tips effectively.
BEECH We are really enjoying our work on measuring length this week.
Here are Monty and Minny measuring their playdough ‘snakes’
with their bead strings. We have continued to look at non-fiction
books in literacy and have been labelling features of a fire engine
and writing facts about fire engines and fire fighters. We watched
a very exciting video clip of a fire being put out.
ASH Thank you to everyone that came to Ash class assembly. We really enjoyed sharing all of
our work with you. We worked hard to speak clearly and confidently. In Maths we have
been playing games on the computer to practice our rapid recall of number bonds. We
have been looking at recycling in Science and had lots of ideas about what we could
recycle! Please can I remind all parents that we do not bring toys into school (unless it is
for show and tell—see timetable). We have had lots of upset over toys getting lost or
swapped, so please can you ensure that your children do not bring them.
Lisa’s
Kitchen
Monday 2nd November
Cheese & Tomato Pasta
Syrup Sponge & Custard
Tuesday 3rd November
Meatloaf
Raspberry Bun
Wednesday 4th November
Meat & Potato Pie
Chocolate Mandarin
Sponge
Thursday 5th November
Chicken Korma
Toffee Apple Cake &
Custard
Friday 6th November
Battered Fish
Fruit Salad
Monday 19th October Fish Fingers
Jam Roly Poly & Custard
Tuesday 20th October Pasta Bolognaise
Flapjack
Wednesday 21st October
Chicken Pie
Arctic Roll & Peaches
Thursday 22nd October Beef Hot Pot
Biscuit, Cheese & Grapes
Friday 23rd October
Sausage, Potato & Beans
Halloween Biscuits
PTA Update and Forthcoming Party
Sally, Carolyn and myself would like to say a big hello to you all! We are
looking forward to some exciting times ahead with you all in the coming
school year. As always, we welcome any fundraising ideas from you and
volunteers are always welcomed with enthusiasm!
After our first informal meeting on Friday we have a few ideas that we
would like to share with you, the first being an Autumn fancy dress
party. This will be held in school on Friday 23rd October 3.30pm til
6 pm. Please see details on posters around school.
We are also asking for donations of any magazines, as current as possible,
that you have finished with (these can be adults or children's) We aim to
leave these in reception where you may purchase one for £1.50, a great
way to catch up on the latest celebrity gossip, gardening or children's
programmes at a much reduced price!
Finally, any jam jars that you may have, please bring them in! We have
many uses for them and donations throughout the year are appreciated.
Many thanks in advance, Claire Gautam
This is the main choice—there is
a vegetarian option available
every day (as per menus
sent at the start of term)
Football Report
Joey, Lewis, George, Jonny, Thomas, Alfie, Dylan, Corey, Neive and Kitty
all played in a Y3/4 football tournament at Sandylands last Friday. The
first match was 5 nil to us, then the 2nd match was 1 nil to them, 3rd
match was 3 nil to us, 4th match was 4 nil to them and then the 5th
match was 3 nil to us. Overall we came 4th . We were really proud of our
efforts. By Joey Driscoll
Can you Help?
World Prematurity Day is observed on the 17th November to raise
awareness of pre term birth and the care of premature babies world-
wide. Approximately 15 million babies are born prematurely every year, 1
in 10 around the world.
I volunteer on the neo natal unit at Bradford Royal Infirmary on behalf of
Bliss (Bliss.org.uk) and every year on World Prematurity Day we give gifts to
everyone currently spending time on the unit. This includes purple knitted
hats, one for each child. If any of our parents, grandparents or other
family members are a dab hand at knitting and would like to help out I
would be most grateful! I will need the hats for the first week in November
ideally (they must be purple!). If you need a pattern, please visit http://
www.fiberfluxblog.com/2011/02/free-pattern.html?m=1. Thank you.
Claire Gautam
Parking – Collection
Be aware that it is VERY busy at drop off and collection times. Please
consider parking at the village hall and walking up to school.
Assemblies
Next week: Thursday 22nd October it is Willow class assembly at 9am.
Friday 23rd October – achievement assembly, pupils are invited to bring
in something to show and speak about that they have achieved outside
school.
Oak and Willow class had been challenged to write a short story about
space on the back of a postcard. Amber Dobson won 2 tickets to go to
Settle Stories to see Tales from Cosmos—a story that was set in 1910
about a man shot down 9 suns so that we only had un in the whole wide
world. It was great.
Garg
rave C
of E
Prim
ary
School
Thurs
day 1
5th
Octo
ber
2015
Gargrave CE (VC) Primary School, Neville
Road, Gargrave, BD23 3RE
Tel: 01756 749433 Fax: 01756 749463
Email: admin@gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk
Website: www.gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk
See overleaf for
Holly Eyles (super reading)
Lola Dobson (excellent behaviour)
Ayaan Ali (knowing space facts—confident)
Samuel Blackwell (fantastic number task homework)
Lars Keyworth (perseverance with his can work)
Daisy Hill (working hard during paired reading)
Emma Hargraves and Megan Webb (for kindness towards other children)
Ollie Metcalfe (not giving up with his tricky work)
Zara Pratt (expressive brainbuilder work)
Every Child Counts: Every Child Contributes Issue 6
Izobela & Harry Dean
Skipping For Schools—Wednesday 21st October
We have invited Sports Skipping for Schools to host an all day skipping coaching
session where our children will have the opportunity to learn a range of skipping
skills. Skipping on a regular basis will help improve general levels of fitness and,
along with the different skipping skills and challenges taught during the day,
children will gain new found confidence in their own physical abilities. Parents are
invited to attend the presentation at the end of the day ay 2.50pm. Ropes will
also be available to buy on the day only at a cost of £4.00 each.
White Ribbons
Vacancy—Midday Supervisor
We are looking for a fun person who can work alongside the lunchtime staff to
ensure a safe, happy and active lunchtime. The person will be fully supported by
the other members of staff—5 hrs per week, working everyday 12.00pm – 1.00pm
Term Time Only. Closing date for applications ~ Friday 6th November 2015. The job
is advertised on the NYCC website or you can obtain an application pack from
school.
Vacancy—Kitchen Assistant
We have a vacancy for a general kitchen assistant to cover long term maternity
leave. It is for 2 hours per day (11.30am-1.30pm). To apply or ask any further
questions, please contact Vivienne Sadler on 07779788585.
Parents evening
Thanks to every parent for attending to discuss the learning of your child. Feed-
back from parents included requests for a maths calculations evening and a
meeting about assessment without levels. We shall arrange both for after half
term, dates to follow. Parents of pupils in years 2 and 6 were given copies of the
criteria for a child to be awarded ‘national standard’. There are higher expecta-
tions on the pupils in all areas of the curriculum. We also had out sample test ma-
terials for both these year groups, these are available on-line – just search for sam-
ple national tests. In the spring term we shall give you more details of the tests and
the teacher assessment.
Clubs
Apologies as a few parents thought that the clubs were on this week, but they
weren’t because of parents’ evenings. They are on next week.
Oak Class
We have had a report of head lice, please check your child's hair and treat. Also
could you bring in an old shirt for the children to wear when they are doing art.
APPLE This week in Apple class we have focused on
Phonics and Maths activities. In our Phonics sessions
we have covered c, ck, and e. The children have
read words and phrases and draw pictures. In
Maths we have worked on weight and counting
and comparing different sets of objects. Thank you
for coming to our parent consultation evenings and we hope you found them useful.
OAK This week Oak class have been working really hard on their grammar and have been
coming up with some fantastic adverbs and adjectives to make sentences more
interesting. We have also focused on using some tricky punctuation; using colons, semi-
colons, bullet points and brackets. We really enjoyed our trip to Ilkley Literary Festival to
listen to Steve Cole talk. He gave the class lots of great ideas for their writing. In maths
we have been thinking about multiples and factors and learning how to recognise a
prime number.
WILLOW
We have been working hard this week on our
place value skills and accuracy when working
with money. Some of us have been ‘purchasing’
sports cars at Willow Class garage and working
out how much we can save. We have also been
developing skills in newspaper writing and using
peer marking to check we have all used
our Top Tips effectively.
BEECH We are really enjoying our work on measuring length this week.
Here are Monty and Minny measuring their playdough ‘snakes’
with their bead strings. We have continued to look at non-fiction
books in literacy and have been labelling features of a fire engine
and writing facts about fire engines and fire fighters. We watched
a very exciting video clip of a fire being put out.
ASH Thank you to everyone that came to Ash class assembly. We really enjoyed sharing all of
our work with you. We worked hard to speak clearly and confidently. In Maths we have
been playing games on the computer to practice our rapid recall of number bonds. We
have been looking at recycling in Science and had lots of ideas about what we could
recycle! Please can I remind all parents that we do not bring toys into school (unless it is
for show and tell—see timetable). We have had lots of upset over toys getting lost or
swapped, so please can you ensure that your children do not bring them.
Lisa’s
Kitchen
Monday 2nd November
Cheese & Tomato Pasta
Syrup Sponge & Custard
Tuesday 3rd November
Meatloaf
Raspberry Bun
Wednesday 4th November
Meat & Potato Pie
Chocolate Mandarin
Sponge
Thursday 5th November
Chicken Korma
Toffee Apple Cake &
Custard
Friday 6th November
Battered Fish
Fruit Salad
Monday 19th October Fish Fingers
Jam Roly Poly & Custard
Tuesday 20th October Pasta Bolognaise
Flapjack
Wednesday 21st October
Chicken Pie
Arctic Roll & Peaches
Thursday 22nd October Beef Hot Pot
Biscuit, Cheese & Grapes
Friday 23rd October
Sausage, Potato & Beans
Halloween Biscuits
PTA Update and Forthcoming Party
Sally, Carolyn and myself would like to say a big hello to you all! We are
looking forward to some exciting times ahead with you all in the coming
school year. As always, we welcome any fundraising ideas from you and
volunteers are always welcomed with enthusiasm!
After our first informal meeting on Friday we have a few ideas that we
would like to share with you, the first being an Autumn fancy dress
party. This will be held in school on Friday 23rd October 3.30pm til
6 pm. Please see details on posters around school.
We are also asking for donations of any magazines, as current as possible,
that you have finished with (these can be adults or children's) We aim to
leave these in reception where you may purchase one for £1.50, a great
way to catch up on the latest celebrity gossip, gardening or children's
programmes at a much reduced price!
Finally, any jam jars that you may have, please bring them in! We have
many uses for them and donations throughout the year are appreciated.
Many thanks in advance, Claire Gautam
This is the main choice—there is
a vegetarian option available
every day (as per menus
sent at the start of term)
Football Report
Joey, Lewis, George, Jonny, Thomas, Alfie, Dylan, Corey, Neive and Kitty
all played in a Y3/4 football tournament at Sandylands last Friday. The
first match was 5 nil to us, then the 2nd match was 1 nil to them, 3rd
match was 3 nil to us, 4th match was 4 nil to them and then the 5th
match was 3 nil to us. Overall we came 4th . We were really proud of our
efforts. By Joey Driscoll
Can you Help?
World Prematurity Day is observed on the 17th November to raise
awareness of pre term birth and the care of premature babies world-
wide. Approximately 15 million babies are born prematurely every year, 1
in 10 around the world.
I volunteer on the neo natal unit at Bradford Royal Infirmary on behalf of
Bliss (Bliss.org.uk) and every year on World Prematurity Day we give gifts to
everyone currently spending time on the unit. This includes purple knitted
hats, one for each child. If any of our parents, grandparents or other
family members are a dab hand at knitting and would like to help out I
would be most grateful! I will need the hats for the first week in November
ideally (they must be purple!). If you need a pattern, please visit http://
www.fiberfluxblog.com/2011/02/free-pattern.html?m=1. Thank you.
Claire Gautam
Parking – Collection
Be aware that it is VERY busy at drop off and collection times. Please
consider parking at the village hall and walking up to school.
Assemblies
Next week: Thursday 22nd October it is Willow class assembly at 9am.
Friday 23rd October – achievement assembly, pupils are invited to bring
in something to show and speak about that they have achieved outside
school.
Oak and Willow class had been challenged to write a short story about
space on the back of a postcard. Amber Dobson won 2 tickets to go to
Settle Stories to see Tales from Cosmos—a story that was set in 1910
about a man shot down 9 suns so that we only had un in the whole wide
world. It was great.
Garg
rave C
of E
Prim
ary
School
Thurs
day 1
5th
Octo
ber
2015
Gargrave CE (VC) Primary School, Neville
Road, Gargrave, BD23 3RE
Tel: 01756 749433 Fax: 01756 749463
Email: admin@gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk
Website: www.gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk
See overleaf for
Holly Eyles (super reading)
Lola Dobson (excellent behaviour)
Ayaan Ali (knowing space facts—confident)
Samuel Blackwell (fantastic number task homework)
Lars Keyworth (perseverance with his can work)
Daisy Hill (working hard during paired reading)
Emma Hargraves and Megan Webb (for kindness towards other children)
Ollie Metcalfe (not giving up with his tricky work)
Zara Pratt (expressive brainbuilder work)
Every Child Counts: Every Child Contributes Issue 6
Zara Pratt
Skipping For Schools—Wednesday 21st October
We have invited Sports Skipping for Schools to host an all day skipping coaching
session where our children will have the opportunity to learn a range of skipping
skills. Skipping on a regular basis will help improve general levels of fitness and,
along with the different skipping skills and challenges taught during the day,
children will gain new found confidence in their own physical abilities. Parents are
invited to attend the presentation at the end of the day ay 2.50pm. Ropes will
also be available to buy on the day only at a cost of £4.00 each.
White Ribbons
Vacancy—Midday Supervisor
We are looking for a fun person who can work alongside the lunchtime staff to
ensure a safe, happy and active lunchtime. The person will be fully supported by
the other members of staff—5 hrs per week, working everyday 12.00pm – 1.00pm
Term Time Only. Closing date for applications ~ Friday 6th November 2015. The job
is advertised on the NYCC website or you can obtain an application pack from
school.
Vacancy—Kitchen Assistant
We have a vacancy for a general kitchen assistant to cover long term maternity
leave. It is for 2 hours per day (11.30am-1.30pm). To apply or ask any further
questions, please contact Vivienne Sadler on 07779788585.
Parents evening
Thanks to every parent for attending to discuss the learning of your child. Feed-
back from parents included requests for a maths calculations evening and a
meeting about assessment without levels. We shall arrange both for after half
term, dates to follow. Parents of pupils in years 2 and 6 were given copies of the
criteria for a child to be awarded ‘national standard’. There are higher expecta-
tions on the pupils in all areas of the curriculum. We also had out sample test ma-
terials for both these year groups, these are available on-line – just search for sam-
ple national tests. In the spring term we shall give you more details of the tests and
the teacher assessment.
Clubs
Apologies as a few parents thought that the clubs were on this week, but they
weren’t because of parents’ evenings. They are on next week.
Oak Class
We have had a report of head lice, please check your child's hair and treat. Also
could you bring in an old shirt for the children to wear when they are doing art.
APPLE This week in Apple class we have focused on
Phonics and Maths activities. In our Phonics sessions
we have covered c, ck, and e. The children have
read words and phrases and draw pictures. In
Maths we have worked on weight and counting
and comparing different sets of objects. Thank you
for coming to our parent consultation evenings and we hope you found them useful.
OAK This week Oak class have been working really hard on their grammar and have been
coming up with some fantastic adverbs and adjectives to make sentences more
interesting. We have also focused on using some tricky punctuation; using colons, semi-
colons, bullet points and brackets. We really enjoyed our trip to Ilkley Literary Festival to
listen to Steve Cole talk. He gave the class lots of great ideas for their writing. In maths
we have been thinking about multiples and factors and learning how to recognise a
prime number.
WILLOW
We have been working hard this week on our
place value skills and accuracy when working
with money. Some of us have been ‘purchasing’
sports cars at Willow Class garage and working
out how much we can save. We have also been
developing skills in newspaper writing and using
peer marking to check we have all used
our Top Tips effectively.
BEECH We are really enjoying our work on measuring length this week.
Here are Monty and Minny measuring their playdough ‘snakes’
with their bead strings. We have continued to look at non-fiction
books in literacy and have been labelling features of a fire engine
and writing facts about fire engines and fire fighters. We watched
a very exciting video clip of a fire being put out.
ASH Thank you to everyone that came to Ash class assembly. We really enjoyed sharing all of
our work with you. We worked hard to speak clearly and confidently. In Maths we have
been playing games on the computer to practice our rapid recall of number bonds. We
have been looking at recycling in Science and had lots of ideas about what we could
recycle! Please can I remind all parents that we do not bring toys into school (unless it is
for show and tell—see timetable). We have had lots of upset over toys getting lost or
swapped, so please can you ensure that your children do not bring them.
Lisa’s
Kitchen
Monday 2nd November
Cheese & Tomato Pasta
Syrup Sponge & Custard
Tuesday 3rd November
Meatloaf
Raspberry Bun
Wednesday 4th November
Meat & Potato Pie
Chocolate Mandarin
Sponge
Thursday 5th November
Chicken Korma
Toffee Apple Cake &
Custard
Friday 6th November
Battered Fish
Fruit Salad
Monday 19th October Fish Fingers
Jam Roly Poly & Custard
Tuesday 20th October Pasta Bolognaise
Flapjack
Wednesday 21st October
Chicken Pie
Arctic Roll & Peaches
Thursday 22nd October Beef Hot Pot
Biscuit, Cheese & Grapes
Friday 23rd October
Sausage, Potato & Beans
Halloween Biscuits
PTA Update and Forthcoming Party
Sally, Carolyn and myself would like to say a big hello to you all! We are
looking forward to some exciting times ahead with you all in the coming
school year. As always, we welcome any fundraising ideas from you and
volunteers are always welcomed with enthusiasm!
After our first informal meeting on Friday we have a few ideas that we
would like to share with you, the first being an Autumn fancy dress
party. This will be held in school on Friday 23rd October 3.30pm til
6 pm. Please see details on posters around school.
We are also asking for donations of any magazines, as current as possible,
that you have finished with (these can be adults or children's) We aim to
leave these in reception where you may purchase one for £1.50, a great
way to catch up on the latest celebrity gossip, gardening or children's
programmes at a much reduced price!
Finally, any jam jars that you may have, please bring them in! We have
many uses for them and donations throughout the year are appreciated.
Many thanks in advance, Claire Gautam
This is the main choice—there is
a vegetarian option available
every day (as per menus
sent at the start of term)
Football Report
Joey, Lewis, George, Jonny, Thomas, Alfie, Dylan, Corey, Neive and Kitty
all played in a Y3/4 football tournament at Sandylands last Friday. The
first match was 5 nil to us, then the 2nd match was 1 nil to them, 3rd
match was 3 nil to us, 4th match was 4 nil to them and then the 5th
match was 3 nil to us. Overall we came 4th . We were really proud of our
efforts. By Joey Driscoll
Can you Help?
World Prematurity Day is observed on the 17th November to raise
awareness of pre term birth and the care of premature babies world-
wide. Approximately 15 million babies are born prematurely every year, 1
in 10 around the world.
I volunteer on the neo natal unit at Bradford Royal Infirmary on behalf of
Bliss (Bliss.org.uk) and every year on World Prematurity Day we give gifts to
everyone currently spending time on the unit. This includes purple knitted
hats, one for each child. If any of our parents, grandparents or other
family members are a dab hand at knitting and would like to help out I
would be most grateful! I will need the hats for the first week in November
ideally (they must be purple!). If you need a pattern, please visit http://
www.fiberfluxblog.com/2011/02/free-pattern.html?m=1. Thank you.
Claire Gautam
Parking – Collection
Be aware that it is VERY busy at drop off and collection times. Please
consider parking at the village hall and walking up to school.
Assemblies
Next week: Thursday 22nd October it is Willow class assembly at 9am.
Friday 23rd October – achievement assembly, pupils are invited to bring
in something to show and speak about that they have achieved outside
school.
Oak and Willow class had been challenged to write a short story about
space on the back of a postcard. Amber Dobson won 2 tickets to go to
Settle Stories to see Tales from Cosmos—a story that was set in 1910
about a man shot down 9 suns so that we only had un in the whole wide
world. It was great.
Garg
rave C
of E
Prim
ary
School
Thurs
day 1
5th
Octo
ber
2015
Gargrave CE (VC) Primary School, Neville
Road, Gargrave, BD23 3RE
Tel: 01756 749433 Fax: 01756 749463
Email: admin@gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk
Website: www.gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk
See overleaf for
Holly Eyles (super reading)
Lola Dobson (excellent behaviour)
Ayaan Ali (knowing space facts—confident)
Samuel Blackwell (fantastic number task homework)
Lars Keyworth (perseverance with his can work)
Daisy Hill (working hard during paired reading)
Emma Hargraves and Megan Webb (for kindness towards other children)
Ollie Metcalfe (not giving up with his tricky work)
Zara Pratt (expressive brainbuilder work)
Every Child Counts: Every Child Contributes Issue 6
Brennan & Jamie Packer
Skipping For Schools—Wednesday 21st October
We have invited Sports Skipping for Schools to host an all day skipping coaching
session where our children will have the opportunity to learn a range of skipping
skills. Skipping on a regular basis will help improve general levels of fitness and,
along with the different skipping skills and challenges taught during the day,
children will gain new found confidence in their own physical abilities. Parents are
invited to attend the presentation at the end of the day ay 2.50pm. Ropes will
also be available to buy on the day only at a cost of £4.00 each.
White Ribbons
Vacancy—Midday Supervisor
We are looking for a fun person who can work alongside the lunchtime staff to
ensure a safe, happy and active lunchtime. The person will be fully supported by
the other members of staff—5 hrs per week, working everyday 12.00pm – 1.00pm
Term Time Only. Closing date for applications ~ Friday 6th November 2015. The job
is advertised on the NYCC website or you can obtain an application pack from
school.
Vacancy—Kitchen Assistant
We have a vacancy for a general kitchen assistant to cover long term maternity
leave. It is for 2 hours per day (11.30am-1.30pm). To apply or ask any further
questions, please contact Vivienne Sadler on 07779788585.
Parents evening
Thanks to every parent for attending to discuss the learning of your child. Feed-
back from parents included requests for a maths calculations evening and a
meeting about assessment without levels. We shall arrange both for after half
term, dates to follow. Parents of pupils in years 2 and 6 were given copies of the
criteria for a child to be awarded ‘national standard’. There are higher expecta-
tions on the pupils in all areas of the curriculum. We also had out sample test ma-
terials for both these year groups, these are available on-line – just search for sam-
ple national tests. In the spring term we shall give you more details of the tests and
the teacher assessment.
Clubs
Apologies as a few parents thought that the clubs were on this week, but they
weren’t because of parents’ evenings. They are on next week.
Oak Class
We have had a report of head lice, please check your child's hair and treat. Also
could you bring in an old shirt for the children to wear when they are doing art.
APPLE This week in Apple class we have focused on
Phonics and Maths activities. In our Phonics sessions
we have covered c, ck, and e. The children have
read words and phrases and draw pictures. In
Maths we have worked on weight and counting
and comparing different sets of objects. Thank you
for coming to our parent consultation evenings and we hope you found them useful.
OAK This week Oak class have been working really hard on their grammar and have been
coming up with some fantastic adverbs and adjectives to make sentences more
interesting. We have also focused on using some tricky punctuation; using colons, semi-
colons, bullet points and brackets. We really enjoyed our trip to Ilkley Literary Festival to
listen to Steve Cole talk. He gave the class lots of great ideas for their writing. In maths
we have been thinking about multiples and factors and learning how to recognise a
prime number.
WILLOW
We have been working hard this week on our
place value skills and accuracy when working
with money. Some of us have been ‘purchasing’
sports cars at Willow Class garage and working
out how much we can save. We have also been
developing skills in newspaper writing and using
peer marking to check we have all used
our Top Tips effectively.
BEECH We are really enjoying our work on measuring length this week.
Here are Monty and Minny measuring their playdough ‘snakes’
with their bead strings. We have continued to look at non-fiction
books in literacy and have been labelling features of a fire engine
and writing facts about fire engines and fire fighters. We watched
a very exciting video clip of a fire being put out.
ASH Thank you to everyone that came to Ash class assembly. We really enjoyed sharing all of
our work with you. We worked hard to speak clearly and confidently. In Maths we have
been playing games on the computer to practice our rapid recall of number bonds. We
have been looking at recycling in Science and had lots of ideas about what we could
recycle! Please can I remind all parents that we do not bring toys into school (unless it is
for show and tell—see timetable). We have had lots of upset over toys getting lost or
swapped, so please can you ensure that your children do not bring them.
Lisa’s
Kitchen
Monday 2nd November
Cheese & Tomato Pasta
Syrup Sponge & Custard
Tuesday 3rd November
Meatloaf
Raspberry Bun
Wednesday 4th November
Meat & Potato Pie
Chocolate Mandarin
Sponge
Thursday 5th November
Chicken Korma
Toffee Apple Cake &
Custard
Friday 6th November
Battered Fish
Fruit Salad
Monday 19th October Fish Fingers
Jam Roly Poly & Custard
Tuesday 20th October Pasta Bolognaise
Flapjack
Wednesday 21st October
Chicken Pie
Arctic Roll & Peaches
Thursday 22nd October Beef Hot Pot
Biscuit, Cheese & Grapes
Friday 23rd October
Sausage, Potato & Beans
Halloween Biscuits
PTA Update and Forthcoming Party
Sally, Carolyn and myself would like to say a big hello to you all! We are
looking forward to some exciting times ahead with you all in the coming
school year. As always, we welcome any fundraising ideas from you and
volunteers are always welcomed with enthusiasm!
After our first informal meeting on Friday we have a few ideas that we
would like to share with you, the first being an Autumn fancy dress
party. This will be held in school on Friday 23rd October 3.30pm til
6 pm. Please see details on posters around school.
We are also asking for donations of any magazines, as current as possible,
that you have finished with (these can be adults or children's) We aim to
leave these in reception where you may purchase one for £1.50, a great
way to catch up on the latest celebrity gossip, gardening or children's
programmes at a much reduced price!
Finally, any jam jars that you may have, please bring them in! We have
many uses for them and donations throughout the year are appreciated.
Many thanks in advance, Claire Gautam
This is the main choice—there is
a vegetarian option available
every day (as per menus
sent at the start of term)
Football Report
Joey, Lewis, George, Jonny, Thomas, Alfie, Dylan, Corey, Neive and Kitty
all played in a Y3/4 football tournament at Sandylands last Friday. The
first match was 5 nil to us, then the 2nd match was 1 nil to them, 3rd
match was 3 nil to us, 4th match was 4 nil to them and then the 5th
match was 3 nil to us. Overall we came 4th . We were really proud of our
efforts. By Joey Driscoll
Can you Help?
World Prematurity Day is observed on the 17th November to raise
awareness of pre term birth and the care of premature babies world-
wide. Approximately 15 million babies are born prematurely every year, 1
in 10 around the world.
I volunteer on the neo natal unit at Bradford Royal Infirmary on behalf of
Bliss (Bliss.org.uk) and every year on World Prematurity Day we give gifts to
everyone currently spending time on the unit. This includes purple knitted
hats, one for each child. If any of our parents, grandparents or other
family members are a dab hand at knitting and would like to help out I
would be most grateful! I will need the hats for the first week in November
ideally (they must be purple!). If you need a pattern, please visit http://
www.fiberfluxblog.com/2011/02/free-pattern.html?m=1. Thank you.
Claire Gautam
Parking – Collection
Be aware that it is VERY busy at drop off and collection times. Please
consider parking at the village hall and walking up to school.
Assemblies
Next week: Thursday 22nd October it is Willow class assembly at 9am.
Friday 23rd October – achievement assembly, pupils are invited to bring
in something to show and speak about that they have achieved outside
school.
Oak and Willow class had been challenged to write a short story about
space on the back of a postcard. Amber Dobson won 2 tickets to go to
Settle Stories to see Tales from Cosmos—a story that was set in 1910
about a man shot down 9 suns so that we only had un in the whole wide
world. It was great.
Garg
rave C
of E
Prim
ary
School
Thurs
day 1
5th
Octo
ber
2015
Gargrave CE (VC) Primary School, Neville
Road, Gargrave, BD23 3RE
Tel: 01756 749433 Fax: 01756 749463
Email: admin@gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk
Website: www.gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk
See overleaf for
Holly Eyles (super reading)
Lola Dobson (excellent behaviour)
Ayaan Ali (knowing space facts—confident)
Samuel Blackwell (fantastic number task homework)
Lars Keyworth (perseverance with his can work)
Daisy Hill (working hard during paired reading)
Emma Hargraves and Megan Webb (for kindness towards other children)
Ollie Metcalfe (not giving up with his tricky work)
Zara Pratt (expressive brainbuilder work)
Every Child Counts: Every Child Contributes Issue 6
Erin & Josh Loydall
Skipping For Schools—Wednesday 21st October
We have invited Sports Skipping for Schools to host an all day skipping coaching
session where our children will have the opportunity to learn a range of skipping
skills. Skipping on a regular basis will help improve general levels of fitness and,
along with the different skipping skills and challenges taught during the day,
children will gain new found confidence in their own physical abilities. Parents are
invited to attend the presentation at the end of the day ay 2.50pm. Ropes will
also be available to buy on the day only at a cost of £4.00 each.
White Ribbons
Vacancy—Midday Supervisor
We are looking for a fun person who can work alongside the lunchtime staff to
ensure a safe, happy and active lunchtime. The person will be fully supported by
the other members of staff—5 hrs per week, working everyday 12.00pm – 1.00pm
Term Time Only. Closing date for applications ~ Friday 6th November 2015. The job
is advertised on the NYCC website or you can obtain an application pack from
school.
Vacancy—Kitchen Assistant
We have a vacancy for a general kitchen assistant to cover long term maternity
leave. It is for 2 hours per day (11.30am-1.30pm). To apply or ask any further
questions, please contact Vivienne Sadler on 07779788585.
Parents evening
Thanks to every parent for attending to discuss the learning of your child. Feed-
back from parents included requests for a maths calculations evening and a
meeting about assessment without levels. We shall arrange both for after half
term, dates to follow. Parents of pupils in years 2 and 6 were given copies of the
criteria for a child to be awarded ‘national standard’. There are higher expecta-
tions on the pupils in all areas of the curriculum. We also had out sample test ma-
terials for both these year groups, these are available on-line – just search for sam-
ple national tests. In the spring term we shall give you more details of the tests and
the teacher assessment.
Clubs
Apologies as a few parents thought that the clubs were on this week, but they
weren’t because of parents’ evenings. They are on next week.
Oak Class
We have had a report of head lice, please check your child's hair and treat. Also
could you bring in an old shirt for the children to wear when they are doing art.
APPLE This week in Apple class we have focused on
Phonics and Maths activities. In our Phonics sessions
we have covered c, ck, and e. The children have
read words and phrases and draw pictures. In
Maths we have worked on weight and counting
and comparing different sets of objects. Thank you
for coming to our parent consultation evenings and we hope you found them useful.
OAK This week Oak class have been working really hard on their grammar and have been
coming up with some fantastic adverbs and adjectives to make sentences more
interesting. We have also focused on using some tricky punctuation; using colons, semi-
colons, bullet points and brackets. We really enjoyed our trip to Ilkley Literary Festival to
listen to Steve Cole talk. He gave the class lots of great ideas for their writing. In maths
we have been thinking about multiples and factors and learning how to recognise a
prime number.
WILLOW
We have been working hard this week on our
place value skills and accuracy when working
with money. Some of us have been ‘purchasing’
sports cars at Willow Class garage and working
out how much we can save. We have also been
developing skills in newspaper writing and using
peer marking to check we have all used
our Top Tips effectively.
BEECH We are really enjoying our work on measuring length this week.
Here are Monty and Minny measuring their playdough ‘snakes’
with their bead strings. We have continued to look at non-fiction
books in literacy and have been labelling features of a fire engine
and writing facts about fire engines and fire fighters. We watched
a very exciting video clip of a fire being put out.
ASH Thank you to everyone that came to Ash class assembly. We really enjoyed sharing all of
our work with you. We worked hard to speak clearly and confidently. In Maths we have
been playing games on the computer to practice our rapid recall of number bonds. We
have been looking at recycling in Science and had lots of ideas about what we could
recycle! Please can I remind all parents that we do not bring toys into school (unless it is
for show and tell—see timetable). We have had lots of upset over toys getting lost or
swapped, so please can you ensure that your children do not bring them.
Lisa’s
Kitchen
Monday 2nd November
Cheese & Tomato Pasta
Syrup Sponge & Custard
Tuesday 3rd November
Meatloaf
Raspberry Bun
Wednesday 4th November
Meat & Potato Pie
Chocolate Mandarin
Sponge
Thursday 5th November
Chicken Korma
Toffee Apple Cake &
Custard
Friday 6th November
Battered Fish
Fruit Salad
Monday 19th October Fish Fingers
Jam Roly Poly & Custard
Tuesday 20th October Pasta Bolognaise
Flapjack
Wednesday 21st October
Chicken Pie
Arctic Roll & Peaches
Thursday 22nd October Beef Hot Pot
Biscuit, Cheese & Grapes
Friday 23rd October
Sausage, Potato & Beans
Halloween Biscuits
PTA Update and Forthcoming Party
Sally, Carolyn and myself would like to say a big hello to you all! We are
looking forward to some exciting times ahead with you all in the coming
school year. As always, we welcome any fundraising ideas from you and
volunteers are always welcomed with enthusiasm!
After our first informal meeting on Friday we have a few ideas that we
would like to share with you, the first being an Autumn fancy dress
party. This will be held in school on Friday 23rd October 3.30pm til
6 pm. Please see details on posters around school.
We are also asking for donations of any magazines, as current as possible,
that you have finished with (these can be adults or children's) We aim to
leave these in reception where you may purchase one for £1.50, a great
way to catch up on the latest celebrity gossip, gardening or children's
programmes at a much reduced price!
Finally, any jam jars that you may have, please bring them in! We have
many uses for them and donations throughout the year are appreciated.
Many thanks in advance, Claire Gautam
This is the main choice—there is
a vegetarian option available
every day (as per menus
sent at the start of term)
Football Report
Joey, Lewis, George, Jonny, Thomas, Alfie, Dylan, Corey, Neive and Kitty
all played in a Y3/4 football tournament at Sandylands last Friday. The
first match was 5 nil to us, then the 2nd match was 1 nil to them, 3rd
match was 3 nil to us, 4th match was 4 nil to them and then the 5th
match was 3 nil to us. Overall we came 4th . We were really proud of our
efforts. By Joey Driscoll
Can you Help?
World Prematurity Day is observed on the 17th November to raise
awareness of pre term birth and the care of premature babies world-
wide. Approximately 15 million babies are born prematurely every year, 1
in 10 around the world.
I volunteer on the neo natal unit at Bradford Royal Infirmary on behalf of
Bliss (Bliss.org.uk) and every year on World Prematurity Day we give gifts to
everyone currently spending time on the unit. This includes purple knitted
hats, one for each child. If any of our parents, grandparents or other
family members are a dab hand at knitting and would like to help out I
would be most grateful! I will need the hats for the first week in November
ideally (they must be purple!). If you need a pattern, please visit http://
www.fiberfluxblog.com/2011/02/free-pattern.html?m=1. Thank you.
Claire Gautam
Parking – Collection
Be aware that it is VERY busy at drop off and collection times. Please
consider parking at the village hall and walking up to school.
Assemblies
Next week: Thursday 22nd October it is Willow class assembly at 9am.
Friday 23rd October – achievement assembly, pupils are invited to bring
in something to show and speak about that they have achieved outside
school.
Oak and Willow class had been challenged to write a short story about
space on the back of a postcard. Amber Dobson won 2 tickets to go to
Settle Stories to see Tales from Cosmos—a story that was set in 1910
about a man shot down 9 suns so that we only had un in the whole wide
world. It was great.
Garg
rave C
of E
Prim
ary
School
Thurs
day 1
5th
Octo
ber
2015
Gargrave CE (VC) Primary School, Neville
Road, Gargrave, BD23 3RE
Tel: 01756 749433 Fax: 01756 749463
Email: admin@gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk
Website: www.gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk
See overleaf for
Holly Eyles (super reading)
Lola Dobson (excellent behaviour)
Ayaan Ali (knowing space facts—confident)
Samuel Blackwell (fantastic number task homework)
Lars Keyworth (perseverance with his can work)
Daisy Hill (working hard during paired reading)
Emma Hargraves and Megan Webb (for kindness towards other children)
Ollie Metcalfe (not giving up with his tricky work)
Zara Pratt (expressive brainbuilder work)
Every Child Counts: Every Child Contributes Issue 6
Jessica & Lulu Starkey
Skipping For Schools—Wednesday 21st October
We have invited Sports Skipping for Schools to host an all day skipping coaching
session where our children will have the opportunity to learn a range of skipping
skills. Skipping on a regular basis will help improve general levels of fitness and,
along with the different skipping skills and challenges taught during the day,
children will gain new found confidence in their own physical abilities. Parents are
invited to attend the presentation at the end of the day ay 2.50pm. Ropes will
also be available to buy on the day only at a cost of £4.00 each.
White Ribbons
Vacancy—Midday Supervisor
We are looking for a fun person who can work alongside the lunchtime staff to
ensure a safe, happy and active lunchtime. The person will be fully supported by
the other members of staff—5 hrs per week, working everyday 12.00pm – 1.00pm
Term Time Only. Closing date for applications ~ Friday 6th November 2015. The job
is advertised on the NYCC website or you can obtain an application pack from
school.
Vacancy—Kitchen Assistant
We have a vacancy for a general kitchen assistant to cover long term maternity
leave. It is for 2 hours per day (11.30am-1.30pm). To apply or ask any further
questions, please contact Vivienne Sadler on 07779788585.
Parents evening
Thanks to every parent for attending to discuss the learning of your child. Feed-
back from parents included requests for a maths calculations evening and a
meeting about assessment without levels. We shall arrange both for after half
term, dates to follow. Parents of pupils in years 2 and 6 were given copies of the
criteria for a child to be awarded ‘national standard’. There are higher expecta-
tions on the pupils in all areas of the curriculum. We also had out sample test ma-
terials for both these year groups, these are available on-line – just search for sam-
ple national tests. In the spring term we shall give you more details of the tests and
the teacher assessment.
Clubs
Apologies as a few parents thought that the clubs were on this week, but they
weren’t because of parents’ evenings. They are on next week.
Oak Class
We have had a report of head lice, please check your child's hair and treat. Also
could you bring in an old shirt for the children to wear when they are doing art.
APPLE This week in Apple class we have focused on
Phonics and Maths activities. In our Phonics sessions
we have covered c, ck, and e. The children have
read words and phrases and draw pictures. In
Maths we have worked on weight and counting
and comparing different sets of objects. Thank you
for coming to our parent consultation evenings and we hope you found them useful.
OAK This week Oak class have been working really hard on their grammar and have been
coming up with some fantastic adverbs and adjectives to make sentences more
interesting. We have also focused on using some tricky punctuation; using colons, semi-
colons, bullet points and brackets. We really enjoyed our trip to Ilkley Literary Festival to
listen to Steve Cole talk. He gave the class lots of great ideas for their writing. In maths
we have been thinking about multiples and factors and learning how to recognise a
prime number.
WILLOW
We have been working hard this week on our
place value skills and accuracy when working
with money. Some of us have been ‘purchasing’
sports cars at Willow Class garage and working
out how much we can save. We have also been
developing skills in newspaper writing and using
peer marking to check we have all used
our Top Tips effectively.
BEECH We are really enjoying our work on measuring length this week.
Here are Monty and Minny measuring their playdough ‘snakes’
with their bead strings. We have continued to look at non-fiction
books in literacy and have been labelling features of a fire engine
and writing facts about fire engines and fire fighters. We watched
a very exciting video clip of a fire being put out.
ASH Thank you to everyone that came to Ash class assembly. We really enjoyed sharing all of
our work with you. We worked hard to speak clearly and confidently. In Maths we have
been playing games on the computer to practice our rapid recall of number bonds. We
have been looking at recycling in Science and had lots of ideas about what we could
recycle! Please can I remind all parents that we do not bring toys into school (unless it is
for show and tell—see timetable). We have had lots of upset over toys getting lost or
swapped, so please can you ensure that your children do not bring them.
Lisa’s
Kitchen
Monday 2nd November
Cheese & Tomato Pasta
Syrup Sponge & Custard
Tuesday 3rd November
Meatloaf
Raspberry Bun
Wednesday 4th November
Meat & Potato Pie
Chocolate Mandarin
Sponge
Thursday 5th November
Chicken Korma
Toffee Apple Cake &
Custard
Friday 6th November
Battered Fish
Fruit Salad
Monday 19th October Fish Fingers
Jam Roly Poly & Custard
Tuesday 20th October Pasta Bolognaise
Flapjack
Wednesday 21st October
Chicken Pie
Arctic Roll & Peaches
Thursday 22nd October Beef Hot Pot
Biscuit, Cheese & Grapes
Friday 23rd October
Sausage, Potato & Beans
Halloween Biscuits
PTA Update and Forthcoming Party
Sally, Carolyn and myself would like to say a big hello to you all! We are
looking forward to some exciting times ahead with you all in the coming
school year. As always, we welcome any fundraising ideas from you and
volunteers are always welcomed with enthusiasm!
After our first informal meeting on Friday we have a few ideas that we
would like to share with you, the first being an Autumn fancy dress
party. This will be held in school on Friday 23rd October 3.30pm til
6 pm. Please see details on posters around school.
We are also asking for donations of any magazines, as current as possible,
that you have finished with (these can be adults or children's) We aim to
leave these in reception where you may purchase one for £1.50, a great
way to catch up on the latest celebrity gossip, gardening or children's
programmes at a much reduced price!
Finally, any jam jars that you may have, please bring them in! We have
many uses for them and donations throughout the year are appreciated.
Many thanks in advance, Claire Gautam
This is the main choice—there is
a vegetarian option available
every day (as per menus
sent at the start of term)
Football Report
Joey, Lewis, George, Jonny, Thomas, Alfie, Dylan, Corey, Neive and Kitty
all played in a Y3/4 football tournament at Sandylands last Friday. The
first match was 5 nil to us, then the 2nd match was 1 nil to them, 3rd
match was 3 nil to us, 4th match was 4 nil to them and then the 5th
match was 3 nil to us. Overall we came 4th . We were really proud of our
efforts. By Joey Driscoll
Can you Help?
World Prematurity Day is observed on the 17th November to raise
awareness of pre term birth and the care of premature babies world-
wide. Approximately 15 million babies are born prematurely every year, 1
in 10 around the world.
I volunteer on the neo natal unit at Bradford Royal Infirmary on behalf of
Bliss (Bliss.org.uk) and every year on World Prematurity Day we give gifts to
everyone currently spending time on the unit. This includes purple knitted
hats, one for each child. If any of our parents, grandparents or other
family members are a dab hand at knitting and would like to help out I
would be most grateful! I will need the hats for the first week in November
ideally (they must be purple!). If you need a pattern, please visit http://
www.fiberfluxblog.com/2011/02/free-pattern.html?m=1. Thank you.
Claire Gautam
Parking – Collection
Be aware that it is VERY busy at drop off and collection times. Please
consider parking at the village hall and walking up to school.
Assemblies
Next week: Thursday 22nd October it is Willow class assembly at 9am.
Friday 23rd October – achievement assembly, pupils are invited to bring
in something to show and speak about that they have achieved outside
school.
Oak and Willow class had been challenged to write a short story about
space on the back of a postcard. Amber Dobson won 2 tickets to go to
Settle Stories to see Tales from Cosmos—a story that was set in 1910
about a man shot down 9 suns so that we only had un in the whole wide
world. It was great.
Garg
rave C
of E
Prim
ary
School
Thurs
day 1
5th
Octo
ber
2015
Gargrave CE (VC) Primary School, Neville
Road, Gargrave, BD23 3RE
Tel: 01756 749433 Fax: 01756 749463
Email: admin@gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk
Website: www.gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk
See overleaf for
Holly Eyles (super reading)
Lola Dobson (excellent behaviour)
Ayaan Ali (knowing space facts—confident)
Samuel Blackwell (fantastic number task homework)
Lars Keyworth (perseverance with his can work)
Daisy Hill (working hard during paired reading)
Emma Hargraves and Megan Webb (for kindness towards other children)
Ollie Metcalfe (not giving up with his tricky work)
Zara Pratt (expressive brainbuilder work)
Every Child Counts: Every Child Contributes Issue 6
Luis Egan
Skipping For Schools—Wednesday 21st October
We have invited Sports Skipping for Schools to host an all day skipping coaching
session where our children will have the opportunity to learn a range of skipping
skills. Skipping on a regular basis will help improve general levels of fitness and,
along with the different skipping skills and challenges taught during the day,
children will gain new found confidence in their own physical abilities. Parents are
invited to attend the presentation at the end of the day ay 2.50pm. Ropes will
also be available to buy on the day only at a cost of £4.00 each.
White Ribbons
Vacancy—Midday Supervisor
We are looking for a fun person who can work alongside the lunchtime staff to
ensure a safe, happy and active lunchtime. The person will be fully supported by
the other members of staff—5 hrs per week, working everyday 12.00pm – 1.00pm
Term Time Only. Closing date for applications ~ Friday 6th November 2015. The job
is advertised on the NYCC website or you can obtain an application pack from
school.
Vacancy—Kitchen Assistant
We have a vacancy for a general kitchen assistant to cover long term maternity
leave. It is for 2 hours per day (11.30am-1.30pm). To apply or ask any further
questions, please contact Vivienne Sadler on 07779788585.
Parents evening
Thanks to every parent for attending to discuss the learning of your child. Feed-
back from parents included requests for a maths calculations evening and a
meeting about assessment without levels. We shall arrange both for after half
term, dates to follow. Parents of pupils in years 2 and 6 were given copies of the
criteria for a child to be awarded ‘national standard’. There are higher expecta-
tions on the pupils in all areas of the curriculum. We also had out sample test ma-
terials for both these year groups, these are available on-line – just search for sam-
ple national tests. In the spring term we shall give you more details of the tests and
the teacher assessment.
Clubs
Apologies as a few parents thought that the clubs were on this week, but they
weren’t because of parents’ evenings. They are on next week.
Oak Class
We have had a report of head lice, please check your child's hair and treat. Also
could you bring in an old shirt for the children to wear when they are doing art.
APPLE This week in Apple class we have focused on
Phonics and Maths activities. In our Phonics sessions
we have covered c, ck, and e. The children have
read words and phrases and draw pictures. In
Maths we have worked on weight and counting
and comparing different sets of objects. Thank you
for coming to our parent consultation evenings and we hope you found them useful.
OAK This week Oak class have been working really hard on their grammar and have been
coming up with some fantastic adverbs and adjectives to make sentences more
interesting. We have also focused on using some tricky punctuation; using colons, semi-
colons, bullet points and brackets. We really enjoyed our trip to Ilkley Literary Festival to
listen to Steve Cole talk. He gave the class lots of great ideas for their writing. In maths
we have been thinking about multiples and factors and learning how to recognise a
prime number.
WILLOW
We have been working hard this week on our
place value skills and accuracy when working
with money. Some of us have been ‘purchasing’
sports cars at Willow Class garage and working
out how much we can save. We have also been
developing skills in newspaper writing and using
peer marking to check we have all used
our Top Tips effectively.
BEECH We are really enjoying our work on measuring length this week.
Here are Monty and Minny measuring their playdough ‘snakes’
with their bead strings. We have continued to look at non-fiction
books in literacy and have been labelling features of a fire engine
and writing facts about fire engines and fire fighters. We watched
a very exciting video clip of a fire being put out.
ASH Thank you to everyone that came to Ash class assembly. We really enjoyed sharing all of
our work with you. We worked hard to speak clearly and confidently. In Maths we have
been playing games on the computer to practice our rapid recall of number bonds. We
have been looking at recycling in Science and had lots of ideas about what we could
recycle! Please can I remind all parents that we do not bring toys into school (unless it is
for show and tell—see timetable). We have had lots of upset over toys getting lost or
swapped, so please can you ensure that your children do not bring them.
Lisa’s
Kitchen
Monday 2nd November
Cheese & Tomato Pasta
Syrup Sponge & Custard
Tuesday 3rd November
Meatloaf
Raspberry Bun
Wednesday 4th November
Meat & Potato Pie
Chocolate Mandarin
Sponge
Thursday 5th November
Chicken Korma
Toffee Apple Cake &
Custard
Friday 6th November
Battered Fish
Fruit Salad
Monday 19th October Fish Fingers
Jam Roly Poly & Custard
Tuesday 20th October Pasta Bolognaise
Flapjack
Wednesday 21st October
Chicken Pie
Arctic Roll & Peaches
Thursday 22nd October Beef Hot Pot
Biscuit, Cheese & Grapes
Friday 23rd October
Sausage, Potato & Beans
Halloween Biscuits
PTA Update and Forthcoming Party
Sally, Carolyn and myself would like to say a big hello to you all! We are
looking forward to some exciting times ahead with you all in the coming
school year. As always, we welcome any fundraising ideas from you and
volunteers are always welcomed with enthusiasm!
After our first informal meeting on Friday we have a few ideas that we
would like to share with you, the first being an Autumn fancy dress
party. This will be held in school on Friday 23rd October 3.30pm til
6 pm. Please see details on posters around school.
We are also asking for donations of any magazines, as current as possible,
that you have finished with (these can be adults or children's) We aim to
leave these in reception where you may purchase one for £1.50, a great
way to catch up on the latest celebrity gossip, gardening or children's
programmes at a much reduced price!
Finally, any jam jars that you may have, please bring them in! We have
many uses for them and donations throughout the year are appreciated.
Many thanks in advance, Claire Gautam
This is the main choice—there is
a vegetarian option available
every day (as per menus
sent at the start of term)
Football Report
Joey, Lewis, George, Jonny, Thomas, Alfie, Dylan, Corey, Neive and Kitty
all played in a Y3/4 football tournament at Sandylands last Friday. The
first match was 5 nil to us, then the 2nd match was 1 nil to them, 3rd
match was 3 nil to us, 4th match was 4 nil to them and then the 5th
match was 3 nil to us. Overall we came 4th . We were really proud of our
efforts. By Joey Driscoll
Can you Help?
World Prematurity Day is observed on the 17th November to raise
awareness of pre term birth and the care of premature babies world-
wide. Approximately 15 million babies are born prematurely every year, 1
in 10 around the world.
I volunteer on the neo natal unit at Bradford Royal Infirmary on behalf of
Bliss (Bliss.org.uk) and every year on World Prematurity Day we give gifts to
everyone currently spending time on the unit. This includes purple knitted
hats, one for each child. If any of our parents, grandparents or other
family members are a dab hand at knitting and would like to help out I
would be most grateful! I will need the hats for the first week in November
ideally (they must be purple!). If you need a pattern, please visit http://
www.fiberfluxblog.com/2011/02/free-pattern.html?m=1. Thank you.
Claire Gautam
Parking – Collection
Be aware that it is VERY busy at drop off and collection times. Please
consider parking at the village hall and walking up to school.
Assemblies
Next week: Thursday 22nd October it is Willow class assembly at 9am.
Friday 23rd October – achievement assembly, pupils are invited to bring
in something to show and speak about that they have achieved outside
school.
Oak and Willow class had been challenged to write a short story about
space on the back of a postcard. Amber Dobson won 2 tickets to go to
Settle Stories to see Tales from Cosmos—a story that was set in 1910
about a man shot down 9 suns so that we only had un in the whole wide
world. It was great.
Garg
rave C
of E
Prim
ary
School
Thurs
day 1
5th
Octo
ber
2015
Gargrave CE (VC) Primary School, Neville
Road, Gargrave, BD23 3RE
Tel: 01756 749433 Fax: 01756 749463
Email: admin@gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk
Website: www.gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk
See overleaf for
Holly Eyles (super reading)
Lola Dobson (excellent behaviour)
Ayaan Ali (knowing space facts—confident)
Samuel Blackwell (fantastic number task homework)
Lars Keyworth (perseverance with his can work)
Daisy Hill (working hard during paired reading)
Emma Hargraves and Megan Webb (for kindness towards other children)
Ollie Metcalfe (not giving up with his tricky work)
Zara Pratt (expressive brainbuilder work)
Every Child Counts: Every Child Contributes Issue 6
Bailey, Amber & Lola Dobson
Skipping For Schools—Wednesday 21st October
We have invited Sports Skipping for Schools to host an all day skipping coaching
session where our children will have the opportunity to learn a range of skipping
skills. Skipping on a regular basis will help improve general levels of fitness and,
along with the different skipping skills and challenges taught during the day,
children will gain new found confidence in their own physical abilities. Parents are
invited to attend the presentation at the end of the day ay 2.50pm. Ropes will
also be available to buy on the day only at a cost of £4.00 each.
White Ribbons
Vacancy—Midday Supervisor
We are looking for a fun person who can work alongside the lunchtime staff to
ensure a safe, happy and active lunchtime. The person will be fully supported by
the other members of staff—5 hrs per week, working everyday 12.00pm – 1.00pm
Term Time Only. Closing date for applications ~ Friday 6th November 2015. The job
is advertised on the NYCC website or you can obtain an application pack from
school.
Vacancy—Kitchen Assistant
We have a vacancy for a general kitchen assistant to cover long term maternity
leave. It is for 2 hours per day (11.30am-1.30pm). To apply or ask any further
questions, please contact Vivienne Sadler on 07779788585.
Parents evening
Thanks to every parent for attending to discuss the learning of your child. Feed-
back from parents included requests for a maths calculations evening and a
meeting about assessment without levels. We shall arrange both for after half
term, dates to follow. Parents of pupils in years 2 and 6 were given copies of the
criteria for a child to be awarded ‘national standard’. There are higher expecta-
tions on the pupils in all areas of the curriculum. We also had out sample test ma-
terials for both these year groups, these are available on-line – just search for sam-
ple national tests. In the spring term we shall give you more details of the tests and
the teacher assessment.
Clubs
Apologies as a few parents thought that the clubs were on this week, but they
weren’t because of parents’ evenings. They are on next week.
Oak Class
We have had a report of head lice, please check your child's hair and treat. Also
could you bring in an old shirt for the children to wear when they are doing art.
APPLE This week in Apple class we have focused on
Phonics and Maths activities. In our Phonics sessions
we have covered c, ck, and e. The children have
read words and phrases and draw pictures. In
Maths we have worked on weight and counting
and comparing different sets of objects. Thank you
for coming to our parent consultation evenings and we hope you found them useful.
OAK This week Oak class have been working really hard on their grammar and have been
coming up with some fantastic adverbs and adjectives to make sentences more
interesting. We have also focused on using some tricky punctuation; using colons, semi-
colons, bullet points and brackets. We really enjoyed our trip to Ilkley Literary Festival to
listen to Steve Cole talk. He gave the class lots of great ideas for their writing. In maths
we have been thinking about multiples and factors and learning how to recognise a
prime number.
WILLOW
We have been working hard this week on our
place value skills and accuracy when working
with money. Some of us have been ‘purchasing’
sports cars at Willow Class garage and working
out how much we can save. We have also been
developing skills in newspaper writing and using
peer marking to check we have all used
our Top Tips effectively.
BEECH We are really enjoying our work on measuring length this week.
Here are Monty and Minny measuring their playdough ‘snakes’
with their bead strings. We have continued to look at non-fiction
books in literacy and have been labelling features of a fire engine
and writing facts about fire engines and fire fighters. We watched
a very exciting video clip of a fire being put out.
ASH Thank you to everyone that came to Ash class assembly. We really enjoyed sharing all of
our work with you. We worked hard to speak clearly and confidently. In Maths we have
been playing games on the computer to practice our rapid recall of number bonds. We
have been looking at recycling in Science and had lots of ideas about what we could
recycle! Please can I remind all parents that we do not bring toys into school (unless it is
for show and tell—see timetable). We have had lots of upset over toys getting lost or
swapped, so please can you ensure that your children do not bring them.
Lisa’s
Kitchen
Monday 2nd November
Cheese & Tomato Pasta
Syrup Sponge & Custard
Tuesday 3rd November
Meatloaf
Raspberry Bun
Wednesday 4th November
Meat & Potato Pie
Chocolate Mandarin
Sponge
Thursday 5th November
Chicken Korma
Toffee Apple Cake &
Custard
Friday 6th November
Battered Fish
Fruit Salad
Monday 19th October Fish Fingers
Jam Roly Poly & Custard
Tuesday 20th October Pasta Bolognaise
Flapjack
Wednesday 21st October
Chicken Pie
Arctic Roll & Peaches
Thursday 22nd October Beef Hot Pot
Biscuit, Cheese & Grapes
Friday 23rd October
Sausage, Potato & Beans
Halloween Biscuits
PTA Update and Forthcoming Party
Sally, Carolyn and myself would like to say a big hello to you all! We are
looking forward to some exciting times ahead with you all in the coming
school year. As always, we welcome any fundraising ideas from you and
volunteers are always welcomed with enthusiasm!
After our first informal meeting on Friday we have a few ideas that we
would like to share with you, the first being an Autumn fancy dress
party. This will be held in school on Friday 23rd October 3.30pm til
6 pm. Please see details on posters around school.
We are also asking for donations of any magazines, as current as possible,
that you have finished with (these can be adults or children's) We aim to
leave these in reception where you may purchase one for £1.50, a great
way to catch up on the latest celebrity gossip, gardening or children's
programmes at a much reduced price!
Finally, any jam jars that you may have, please bring them in! We have
many uses for them and donations throughout the year are appreciated.
Many thanks in advance, Claire Gautam
This is the main choice—there is
a vegetarian option available
every day (as per menus
sent at the start of term)
Football Report
Joey, Lewis, George, Jonny, Thomas, Alfie, Dylan, Corey, Neive and Kitty
all played in a Y3/4 football tournament at Sandylands last Friday. The
first match was 5 nil to us, then the 2nd match was 1 nil to them, 3rd
match was 3 nil to us, 4th match was 4 nil to them and then the 5th
match was 3 nil to us. Overall we came 4th . We were really proud of our
efforts. By Joey Driscoll
Can you Help?
World Prematurity Day is observed on the 17th November to raise
awareness of pre term birth and the care of premature babies world-
wide. Approximately 15 million babies are born prematurely every year, 1
in 10 around the world.
I volunteer on the neo natal unit at Bradford Royal Infirmary on behalf of
Bliss (Bliss.org.uk) and every year on World Prematurity Day we give gifts to
everyone currently spending time on the unit. This includes purple knitted
hats, one for each child. If any of our parents, grandparents or other
family members are a dab hand at knitting and would like to help out I
would be most grateful! I will need the hats for the first week in November
ideally (they must be purple!). If you need a pattern, please visit http://
www.fiberfluxblog.com/2011/02/free-pattern.html?m=1. Thank you.
Claire Gautam
Parking – Collection
Be aware that it is VERY busy at drop off and collection times. Please
consider parking at the village hall and walking up to school.
Assemblies
Next week: Thursday 22nd October it is Willow class assembly at 9am.
Friday 23rd October – achievement assembly, pupils are invited to bring
in something to show and speak about that they have achieved outside
school.
Oak and Willow class had been challenged to write a short story about
space on the back of a postcard. Amber Dobson won 2 tickets to go to
Settle Stories to see Tales from Cosmos—a story that was set in 1910
about a man shot down 9 suns so that we only had un in the whole wide
world. It was great.
Garg
rave C
of E
Prim
ary
School
Thurs
day 1
5th
Octo
ber
2015
Gargrave CE (VC) Primary School, Neville
Road, Gargrave, BD23 3RE
Tel: 01756 749433 Fax: 01756 749463
Email: admin@gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk
Website: www.gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk
See overleaf for
Holly Eyles (super reading)
Lola Dobson (excellent behaviour)
Ayaan Ali (knowing space facts—confident)
Samuel Blackwell (fantastic number task homework)
Lars Keyworth (perseverance with his can work)
Daisy Hill (working hard during paired reading)
Emma Hargraves and Megan Webb (for kindness towards other children)
Ollie Metcalfe (not giving up with his tricky work)
Zara Pratt (expressive brainbuilder work)
Every Child Counts: Every Child Contributes Issue 6
Jonny & Kit
Skipping For Schools—Wednesday 21st October
We have invited Sports Skipping for Schools to host an all day skipping coaching
session where our children will have the opportunity to learn a range of skipping
skills. Skipping on a regular basis will help improve general levels of fitness and,
along with the different skipping skills and challenges taught during the day,
children will gain new found confidence in their own physical abilities. Parents are
invited to attend the presentation at the end of the day ay 2.50pm. Ropes will
also be available to buy on the day only at a cost of £4.00 each.
White Ribbons
Vacancy—Midday Supervisor
We are looking for a fun person who can work alongside the lunchtime staff to
ensure a safe, happy and active lunchtime. The person will be fully supported by
the other members of staff—5 hrs per week, working everyday 12.00pm – 1.00pm
Term Time Only. Closing date for applications ~ Friday 6th November 2015. The job
is advertised on the NYCC website or you can obtain an application pack from
school.
Vacancy—Kitchen Assistant
We have a vacancy for a general kitchen assistant to cover long term maternity
leave. It is for 2 hours per day (11.30am-1.30pm). To apply or ask any further
questions, please contact Vivienne Sadler on 07779788585.
Parents evening
Thanks to every parent for attending to discuss the learning of your child. Feed-
back from parents included requests for a maths calculations evening and a
meeting about assessment without levels. We shall arrange both for after half
term, dates to follow. Parents of pupils in years 2 and 6 were given copies of the
criteria for a child to be awarded ‘national standard’. There are higher expecta-
tions on the pupils in all areas of the curriculum. We also had out sample test ma-
terials for both these year groups, these are available on-line – just search for sam-
ple national tests. In the spring term we shall give you more details of the tests and
the teacher assessment.
Clubs
Apologies as a few parents thought that the clubs were on this week, but they
weren’t because of parents’ evenings. They are on next week.
Oak Class
We have had a report of head lice, please check your child's hair and treat. Also
could you bring in an old shirt for the children to wear when they are doing art.
APPLE This week in Apple class we have focused on
Phonics and Maths activities. In our Phonics sessions
we have covered c, ck, and e. The children have
read words and phrases and draw pictures. In
Maths we have worked on weight and counting
and comparing different sets of objects. Thank you
for coming to our parent consultation evenings and we hope you found them useful.
OAK This week Oak class have been working really hard on their grammar and have been
coming up with some fantastic adverbs and adjectives to make sentences more
interesting. We have also focused on using some tricky punctuation; using colons, semi-
colons, bullet points and brackets. We really enjoyed our trip to Ilkley Literary Festival to
listen to Steve Cole talk. He gave the class lots of great ideas for their writing. In maths
we have been thinking about multiples and factors and learning how to recognise a
prime number.
WILLOW
We have been working hard this week on our
place value skills and accuracy when working
with money. Some of us have been ‘purchasing’
sports cars at Willow Class garage and working
out how much we can save. We have also been
developing skills in newspaper writing and using
peer marking to check we have all used
our Top Tips effectively.
BEECH We are really enjoying our work on measuring length this week.
Here are Monty and Minny measuring their playdough ‘snakes’
with their bead strings. We have continued to look at non-fiction
books in literacy and have been labelling features of a fire engine
and writing facts about fire engines and fire fighters. We watched
a very exciting video clip of a fire being put out.
ASH Thank you to everyone that came to Ash class assembly. We really enjoyed sharing all of
our work with you. We worked hard to speak clearly and confidently. In Maths we have
been playing games on the computer to practice our rapid recall of number bonds. We
have been looking at recycling in Science and had lots of ideas about what we could
recycle! Please can I remind all parents that we do not bring toys into school (unless it is
for show and tell—see timetable). We have had lots of upset over toys getting lost or
swapped, so please can you ensure that your children do not bring them.
Lisa’s
Kitchen
Monday 2nd November
Cheese & Tomato Pasta
Syrup Sponge & Custard
Tuesday 3rd November
Meatloaf
Raspberry Bun
Wednesday 4th November
Meat & Potato Pie
Chocolate Mandarin
Sponge
Thursday 5th November
Chicken Korma
Toffee Apple Cake &
Custard
Friday 6th November
Battered Fish
Fruit Salad
Monday 19th October Fish Fingers
Jam Roly Poly & Custard
Tuesday 20th October Pasta Bolognaise
Flapjack
Wednesday 21st October
Chicken Pie
Arctic Roll & Peaches
Thursday 22nd October Beef Hot Pot
Biscuit, Cheese & Grapes
Friday 23rd October
Sausage, Potato & Beans
Halloween Biscuits
PTA Update and Forthcoming Party
Sally, Carolyn and myself would like to say a big hello to you all! We are
looking forward to some exciting times ahead with you all in the coming
school year. As always, we welcome any fundraising ideas from you and
volunteers are always welcomed with enthusiasm!
After our first informal meeting on Friday we have a few ideas that we
would like to share with you, the first being an Autumn fancy dress
party. This will be held in school on Friday 23rd October 3.30pm til
6 pm. Please see details on posters around school.
We are also asking for donations of any magazines, as current as possible,
that you have finished with (these can be adults or children's) We aim to
leave these in reception where you may purchase one for £1.50, a great
way to catch up on the latest celebrity gossip, gardening or children's
programmes at a much reduced price!
Finally, any jam jars that you may have, please bring them in! We have
many uses for them and donations throughout the year are appreciated.
Many thanks in advance, Claire Gautam
This is the main choice—there is
a vegetarian option available
every day (as per menus
sent at the start of term)
Football Report
Joey, Lewis, George, Jonny, Thomas, Alfie, Dylan, Corey, Neive and Kitty
all played in a Y3/4 football tournament at Sandylands last Friday. The
first match was 5 nil to us, then the 2nd match was 1 nil to them, 3rd
match was 3 nil to us, 4th match was 4 nil to them and then the 5th
match was 3 nil to us. Overall we came 4th . We were really proud of our
efforts. By Joey Driscoll
Can you Help?
World Prematurity Day is observed on the 17th November to raise
awareness of pre term birth and the care of premature babies world-
wide. Approximately 15 million babies are born prematurely every year, 1
in 10 around the world.
I volunteer on the neo natal unit at Bradford Royal Infirmary on behalf of
Bliss (Bliss.org.uk) and every year on World Prematurity Day we give gifts to
everyone currently spending time on the unit. This includes purple knitted
hats, one for each child. If any of our parents, grandparents or other
family members are a dab hand at knitting and would like to help out I
would be most grateful! I will need the hats for the first week in November
ideally (they must be purple!). If you need a pattern, please visit http://
www.fiberfluxblog.com/2011/02/free-pattern.html?m=1. Thank you.
Claire Gautam
Parking – Collection
Be aware that it is VERY busy at drop off and collection times. Please
consider parking at the village hall and walking up to school.
Assemblies
Next week: Thursday 22nd October it is Willow class assembly at 9am.
Friday 23rd October – achievement assembly, pupils are invited to bring
in something to show and speak about that they have achieved outside
school.
Oak and Willow class had been challenged to write a short story about
space on the back of a postcard. Amber Dobson won 2 tickets to go to
Settle Stories to see Tales from Cosmos—a story that was set in 1910
about a man shot down 9 suns so that we only had un in the whole wide
world. It was great.
Garg
rave C
of E
Prim
ary
School
Thurs
day 1
5th
Octo
ber
2015
Gargrave CE (VC) Primary School, Neville
Road, Gargrave, BD23 3RE
Tel: 01756 749433 Fax: 01756 749463
Email: admin@gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk
Website: www.gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk
See overleaf for
Holly Eyles (super reading)
Lola Dobson (excellent behaviour)
Ayaan Ali (knowing space facts—confident)
Samuel Blackwell (fantastic number task homework)
Lars Keyworth (perseverance with his can work)
Daisy Hill (working hard during paired reading)
Emma Hargraves and Megan Webb (for kindness towards other children)
Ollie Metcalfe (not giving up with his tricky work)
Zara Pratt (expressive brainbuilder work)
Every Child Counts: Every Child Contributes Issue 6
Ella & Luke Swift
Skipping For Schools—Wednesday 21st October
We have invited Sports Skipping for Schools to host an all day skipping coaching
session where our children will have the opportunity to learn a range of skipping
skills. Skipping on a regular basis will help improve general levels of fitness and,
along with the different skipping skills and challenges taught during the day,
children will gain new found confidence in their own physical abilities. Parents are
invited to attend the presentation at the end of the day ay 2.50pm. Ropes will
also be available to buy on the day only at a cost of £4.00 each.
White Ribbons
Vacancy—Midday Supervisor
We are looking for a fun person who can work alongside the lunchtime staff to
ensure a safe, happy and active lunchtime. The person will be fully supported by
the other members of staff—5 hrs per week, working everyday 12.00pm – 1.00pm
Term Time Only. Closing date for applications ~ Friday 6th November 2015. The job
is advertised on the NYCC website or you can obtain an application pack from
school.
Vacancy—Kitchen Assistant
We have a vacancy for a general kitchen assistant to cover long term maternity
leave. It is for 2 hours per day (11.30am-1.30pm). To apply or ask any further
questions, please contact Vivienne Sadler on 07779788585.
Parents evening
Thanks to every parent for attending to discuss the learning of your child. Feed-
back from parents included requests for a maths calculations evening and a
meeting about assessment without levels. We shall arrange both for after half
term, dates to follow. Parents of pupils in years 2 and 6 were given copies of the
criteria for a child to be awarded ‘national standard’. There are higher expecta-
tions on the pupils in all areas of the curriculum. We also had out sample test ma-
terials for both these year groups, these are available on-line – just search for sam-
ple national tests. In the spring term we shall give you more details of the tests and
the teacher assessment.
Clubs
Apologies as a few parents thought that the clubs were on this week, but they
weren’t because of parents’ evenings. They are on next week.
Oak Class
We have had a report of head lice, please check your child's hair and treat. Also
could you bring in an old shirt for the children to wear when they are doing art.
APPLE This week in Apple class we have focused on
Phonics and Maths activities. In our Phonics sessions
we have covered c, ck, and e. The children have
read words and phrases and draw pictures. In
Maths we have worked on weight and counting
and comparing different sets of objects. Thank you
for coming to our parent consultation evenings and we hope you found them useful.
OAK This week Oak class have been working really hard on their grammar and have been
coming up with some fantastic adverbs and adjectives to make sentences more
interesting. We have also focused on using some tricky punctuation; using colons, semi-
colons, bullet points and brackets. We really enjoyed our trip to Ilkley Literary Festival to
listen to Steve Cole talk. He gave the class lots of great ideas for their writing. In maths
we have been thinking about multiples and factors and learning how to recognise a
prime number.
WILLOW
We have been working hard this week on our
place value skills and accuracy when working
with money. Some of us have been ‘purchasing’
sports cars at Willow Class garage and working
out how much we can save. We have also been
developing skills in newspaper writing and using
peer marking to check we have all used
our Top Tips effectively.
BEECH We are really enjoying our work on measuring length this week.
Here are Monty and Minny measuring their playdough ‘snakes’
with their bead strings. We have continued to look at non-fiction
books in literacy and have been labelling features of a fire engine
and writing facts about fire engines and fire fighters. We watched
a very exciting video clip of a fire being put out.
ASH Thank you to everyone that came to Ash class assembly. We really enjoyed sharing all of
our work with you. We worked hard to speak clearly and confidently. In Maths we have
been playing games on the computer to practice our rapid recall of number bonds. We
have been looking at recycling in Science and had lots of ideas about what we could
recycle! Please can I remind all parents that we do not bring toys into school (unless it is
for show and tell—see timetable). We have had lots of upset over toys getting lost or
swapped, so please can you ensure that your children do not bring them.
Lisa’s
Kitchen
Monday 2nd November
Cheese & Tomato Pasta
Syrup Sponge & Custard
Tuesday 3rd November
Meatloaf
Raspberry Bun
Wednesday 4th November
Meat & Potato Pie
Chocolate Mandarin
Sponge
Thursday 5th November
Chicken Korma
Toffee Apple Cake &
Custard
Friday 6th November
Battered Fish
Fruit Salad
Monday 19th October Fish Fingers
Jam Roly Poly & Custard
Tuesday 20th October Pasta Bolognaise
Flapjack
Wednesday 21st October
Chicken Pie
Arctic Roll & Peaches
Thursday 22nd October Beef Hot Pot
Biscuit, Cheese & Grapes
Friday 23rd October
Sausage, Potato & Beans
Halloween Biscuits
PTA Update and Forthcoming Party
Sally, Carolyn and myself would like to say a big hello to you all! We are
looking forward to some exciting times ahead with you all in the coming
school year. As always, we welcome any fundraising ideas from you and
volunteers are always welcomed with enthusiasm!
After our first informal meeting on Friday we have a few ideas that we
would like to share with you, the first being an Autumn fancy dress
party. This will be held in school on Friday 23rd October 3.30pm til
6 pm. Please see details on posters around school.
We are also asking for donations of any magazines, as current as possible,
that you have finished with (these can be adults or children's) We aim to
leave these in reception where you may purchase one for £1.50, a great
way to catch up on the latest celebrity gossip, gardening or children's
programmes at a much reduced price!
Finally, any jam jars that you may have, please bring them in! We have
many uses for them and donations throughout the year are appreciated.
Many thanks in advance, Claire Gautam
This is the main choice—there is
a vegetarian option available
every day (as per menus
sent at the start of term)
Football Report
Joey, Lewis, George, Jonny, Thomas, Alfie, Dylan, Corey, Neive and Kitty
all played in a Y3/4 football tournament at Sandylands last Friday. The
first match was 5 nil to us, then the 2nd match was 1 nil to them, 3rd
match was 3 nil to us, 4th match was 4 nil to them and then the 5th
match was 3 nil to us. Overall we came 4th . We were really proud of our
efforts. By Joey Driscoll
Can you Help?
World Prematurity Day is observed on the 17th November to raise
awareness of pre term birth and the care of premature babies world-
wide. Approximately 15 million babies are born prematurely every year, 1
in 10 around the world.
I volunteer on the neo natal unit at Bradford Royal Infirmary on behalf of
Bliss (Bliss.org.uk) and every year on World Prematurity Day we give gifts to
everyone currently spending time on the unit. This includes purple knitted
hats, one for each child. If any of our parents, grandparents or other
family members are a dab hand at knitting and would like to help out I
would be most grateful! I will need the hats for the first week in November
ideally (they must be purple!). If you need a pattern, please visit http://
www.fiberfluxblog.com/2011/02/free-pattern.html?m=1. Thank you.
Claire Gautam
Parking – Collection
Be aware that it is VERY busy at drop off and collection times. Please
consider parking at the village hall and walking up to school.
Assemblies
Next week: Thursday 22nd October it is Willow class assembly at 9am.
Friday 23rd October – achievement assembly, pupils are invited to bring
in something to show and speak about that they have achieved outside
school.
Oak and Willow class had been challenged to write a short story about
space on the back of a postcard. Amber Dobson won 2 tickets to go to
Settle Stories to see Tales from Cosmos—a story that was set in 1910
about a man shot down 9 suns so that we only had un in the whole wide
world. It was great.
Garg
rave C
of E
Prim
ary
School
Thurs
day 1
5th
Octo
ber
2015
Gargrave CE (VC) Primary School, Neville
Road, Gargrave, BD23 3RE
Tel: 01756 749433 Fax: 01756 749463
Email: admin@gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk
Website: www.gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk
See overleaf for
Holly Eyles (super reading)
Lola Dobson (excellent behaviour)
Ayaan Ali (knowing space facts—confident)
Samuel Blackwell (fantastic number task homework)
Lars Keyworth (perseverance with his can work)
Daisy Hill (working hard during paired reading)
Emma Hargraves and Megan Webb (for kindness towards other children)
Ollie Metcalfe (not giving up with his tricky work)
Zara Pratt (expressive brainbuilder work)
Every Child Counts: Every Child Contributes Issue 6
Lewis Varey
Skipping For Schools—Wednesday 21st October
We have invited Sports Skipping for Schools to host an all day skipping coaching
session where our children will have the opportunity to learn a range of skipping
skills. Skipping on a regular basis will help improve general levels of fitness and,
along with the different skipping skills and challenges taught during the day,
children will gain new found confidence in their own physical abilities. Parents are
invited to attend the presentation at the end of the day ay 2.50pm. Ropes will
also be available to buy on the day only at a cost of £4.00 each.
White Ribbons
Vacancy—Midday Supervisor
We are looking for a fun person who can work alongside the lunchtime staff to
ensure a safe, happy and active lunchtime. The person will be fully supported by
the other members of staff—5 hrs per week, working everyday 12.00pm – 1.00pm
Term Time Only. Closing date for applications ~ Friday 6th November 2015. The job
is advertised on the NYCC website or you can obtain an application pack from
school.
Vacancy—Kitchen Assistant
We have a vacancy for a general kitchen assistant to cover long term maternity
leave. It is for 2 hours per day (11.30am-1.30pm). To apply or ask any further
questions, please contact Vivienne Sadler on 07779788585.
Parents evening
Thanks to every parent for attending to discuss the learning of your child. Feed-
back from parents included requests for a maths calculations evening and a
meeting about assessment without levels. We shall arrange both for after half
term, dates to follow. Parents of pupils in years 2 and 6 were given copies of the
criteria for a child to be awarded ‘national standard’. There are higher expecta-
tions on the pupils in all areas of the curriculum. We also had out sample test ma-
terials for both these year groups, these are available on-line – just search for sam-
ple national tests. In the spring term we shall give you more details of the tests and
the teacher assessment.
Clubs
Apologies as a few parents thought that the clubs were on this week, but they
weren’t because of parents’ evenings. They are on next week.
Oak Class
We have had a report of head lice, please check your child's hair and treat. Also
could you bring in an old shirt for the children to wear when they are doing art.
APPLE This week in Apple class we have focused on
Phonics and Maths activities. In our Phonics sessions
we have covered c, ck, and e. The children have
read words and phrases and draw pictures. In
Maths we have worked on weight and counting
and comparing different sets of objects. Thank you
for coming to our parent consultation evenings and we hope you found them useful.
OAK This week Oak class have been working really hard on their grammar and have been
coming up with some fantastic adverbs and adjectives to make sentences more
interesting. We have also focused on using some tricky punctuation; using colons, semi-
colons, bullet points and brackets. We really enjoyed our trip to Ilkley Literary Festival to
listen to Steve Cole talk. He gave the class lots of great ideas for their writing. In maths
we have been thinking about multiples and factors and learning how to recognise a
prime number.
WILLOW
We have been working hard this week on our
place value skills and accuracy when working
with money. Some of us have been ‘purchasing’
sports cars at Willow Class garage and working
out how much we can save. We have also been
developing skills in newspaper writing and using
peer marking to check we have all used
our Top Tips effectively.
BEECH We are really enjoying our work on measuring length this week.
Here are Monty and Minny measuring their playdough ‘snakes’
with their bead strings. We have continued to look at non-fiction
books in literacy and have been labelling features of a fire engine
and writing facts about fire engines and fire fighters. We watched
a very exciting video clip of a fire being put out.
ASH Thank you to everyone that came to Ash class assembly. We really enjoyed sharing all of
our work with you. We worked hard to speak clearly and confidently. In Maths we have
been playing games on the computer to practice our rapid recall of number bonds. We
have been looking at recycling in Science and had lots of ideas about what we could
recycle! Please can I remind all parents that we do not bring toys into school (unless it is
for show and tell—see timetable). We have had lots of upset over toys getting lost or
swapped, so please can you ensure that your children do not bring them.
Lisa’s
Kitchen
Monday 2nd November
Cheese & Tomato Pasta
Syrup Sponge & Custard
Tuesday 3rd November
Meatloaf
Raspberry Bun
Wednesday 4th November
Meat & Potato Pie
Chocolate Mandarin
Sponge
Thursday 5th November
Chicken Korma
Toffee Apple Cake &
Custard
Friday 6th November
Battered Fish
Fruit Salad
Monday 19th October Fish Fingers
Jam Roly Poly & Custard
Tuesday 20th October Pasta Bolognaise
Flapjack
Wednesday 21st October
Chicken Pie
Arctic Roll & Peaches
Thursday 22nd October Beef Hot Pot
Biscuit, Cheese & Grapes
Friday 23rd October
Sausage, Potato & Beans
Halloween Biscuits
PTA Update and Forthcoming Party
Sally, Carolyn and myself would like to say a big hello to you all! We are
looking forward to some exciting times ahead with you all in the coming
school year. As always, we welcome any fundraising ideas from you and
volunteers are always welcomed with enthusiasm!
After our first informal meeting on Friday we have a few ideas that we
would like to share with you, the first being an Autumn fancy dress
party. This will be held in school on Friday 23rd October 3.30pm til
6 pm. Please see details on posters around school.
We are also asking for donations of any magazines, as current as possible,
that you have finished with (these can be adults or children's) We aim to
leave these in reception where you may purchase one for £1.50, a great
way to catch up on the latest celebrity gossip, gardening or children's
programmes at a much reduced price!
Finally, any jam jars that you may have, please bring them in! We have
many uses for them and donations throughout the year are appreciated.
Many thanks in advance, Claire Gautam
This is the main choice—there is
a vegetarian option available
every day (as per menus
sent at the start of term)
Football Report
Joey, Lewis, George, Jonny, Thomas, Alfie, Dylan, Corey, Neive and Kitty
all played in a Y3/4 football tournament at Sandylands last Friday. The
first match was 5 nil to us, then the 2nd match was 1 nil to them, 3rd
match was 3 nil to us, 4th match was 4 nil to them and then the 5th
match was 3 nil to us. Overall we came 4th . We were really proud of our
efforts. By Joey Driscoll
Can you Help?
World Prematurity Day is observed on the 17th November to raise
awareness of pre term birth and the care of premature babies world-
wide. Approximately 15 million babies are born prematurely every year, 1
in 10 around the world.
I volunteer on the neo natal unit at Bradford Royal Infirmary on behalf of
Bliss (Bliss.org.uk) and every year on World Prematurity Day we give gifts to
everyone currently spending time on the unit. This includes purple knitted
hats, one for each child. If any of our parents, grandparents or other
family members are a dab hand at knitting and would like to help out I
would be most grateful! I will need the hats for the first week in November
ideally (they must be purple!). If you need a pattern, please visit http://
www.fiberfluxblog.com/2011/02/free-pattern.html?m=1. Thank you.
Claire Gautam
Parking – Collection
Be aware that it is VERY busy at drop off and collection times. Please
consider parking at the village hall and walking up to school.
Assemblies
Next week: Thursday 22nd October it is Willow class assembly at 9am.
Friday 23rd October – achievement assembly, pupils are invited to bring
in something to show and speak about that they have achieved outside
school.
Oak and Willow class had been challenged to write a short story about
space on the back of a postcard. Amber Dobson won 2 tickets to go to
Settle Stories to see Tales from Cosmos—a story that was set in 1910
about a man shot down 9 suns so that we only had un in the whole wide
world. It was great.
Garg
rave C
of E
Prim
ary
School
Thurs
day 1
5th
Octo
ber
2015
Gargrave CE (VC) Primary School, Neville
Road, Gargrave, BD23 3RE
Tel: 01756 749433 Fax: 01756 749463
Email: admin@gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk
Website: www.gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk
See overleaf for
Holly Eyles (super reading)
Lola Dobson (excellent behaviour)
Ayaan Ali (knowing space facts—confident)
Samuel Blackwell (fantastic number task homework)
Lars Keyworth (perseverance with his can work)
Daisy Hill (working hard during paired reading)
Emma Hargraves and Megan Webb (for kindness towards other children)
Ollie Metcalfe (not giving up with his tricky work)
Zara Pratt (expressive brainbuilder work)
Every Child Counts: Every Child Contributes Issue 6
Jenny Whitaker
Skipping For Schools—Wednesday 21st October
We have invited Sports Skipping for Schools to host an all day skipping coaching
session where our children will have the opportunity to learn a range of skipping
skills. Skipping on a regular basis will help improve general levels of fitness and,
along with the different skipping skills and challenges taught during the day,
children will gain new found confidence in their own physical abilities. Parents are
invited to attend the presentation at the end of the day ay 2.50pm. Ropes will
also be available to buy on the day only at a cost of £4.00 each.
White Ribbons
Vacancy—Midday Supervisor
We are looking for a fun person who can work alongside the lunchtime staff to
ensure a safe, happy and active lunchtime. The person will be fully supported by
the other members of staff—5 hrs per week, working everyday 12.00pm – 1.00pm
Term Time Only. Closing date for applications ~ Friday 6th November 2015. The job
is advertised on the NYCC website or you can obtain an application pack from
school.
Vacancy—Kitchen Assistant
We have a vacancy for a general kitchen assistant to cover long term maternity
leave. It is for 2 hours per day (11.30am-1.30pm). To apply or ask any further
questions, please contact Vivienne Sadler on 07779788585.
Parents evening
Thanks to every parent for attending to discuss the learning of your child. Feed-
back from parents included requests for a maths calculations evening and a
meeting about assessment without levels. We shall arrange both for after half
term, dates to follow. Parents of pupils in years 2 and 6 were given copies of the
criteria for a child to be awarded ‘national standard’. There are higher expecta-
tions on the pupils in all areas of the curriculum. We also had out sample test ma-
terials for both these year groups, these are available on-line – just search for sam-
ple national tests. In the spring term we shall give you more details of the tests and
the teacher assessment.
Clubs
Apologies as a few parents thought that the clubs were on this week, but they
weren’t because of parents’ evenings. They are on next week.
Oak Class
We have had a report of head lice, please check your child's hair and treat. Also
could you bring in an old shirt for the children to wear when they are doing art.
APPLE This week in Apple class we have focused on
Phonics and Maths activities. In our Phonics sessions
we have covered c, ck, and e. The children have
read words and phrases and draw pictures. In
Maths we have worked on weight and counting
and comparing different sets of objects. Thank you
for coming to our parent consultation evenings and we hope you found them useful.
OAK This week Oak class have been working really hard on their grammar and have been
coming up with some fantastic adverbs and adjectives to make sentences more
interesting. We have also focused on using some tricky punctuation; using colons, semi-
colons, bullet points and brackets. We really enjoyed our trip to Ilkley Literary Festival to
listen to Steve Cole talk. He gave the class lots of great ideas for their writing. In maths
we have been thinking about multiples and factors and learning how to recognise a
prime number.
WILLOW
We have been working hard this week on our
place value skills and accuracy when working
with money. Some of us have been ‘purchasing’
sports cars at Willow Class garage and working
out how much we can save. We have also been
developing skills in newspaper writing and using
peer marking to check we have all used
our Top Tips effectively.
BEECH We are really enjoying our work on measuring length this week.
Here are Monty and Minny measuring their playdough ‘snakes’
with their bead strings. We have continued to look at non-fiction
books in literacy and have been labelling features of a fire engine
and writing facts about fire engines and fire fighters. We watched
a very exciting video clip of a fire being put out.
ASH Thank you to everyone that came to Ash class assembly. We really enjoyed sharing all of
our work with you. We worked hard to speak clearly and confidently. In Maths we have
been playing games on the computer to practice our rapid recall of number bonds. We
have been looking at recycling in Science and had lots of ideas about what we could
recycle! Please can I remind all parents that we do not bring toys into school (unless it is
for show and tell—see timetable). We have had lots of upset over toys getting lost or
swapped, so please can you ensure that your children do not bring them.
Lisa’s
Kitchen
Monday 2nd November
Cheese & Tomato Pasta
Syrup Sponge & Custard
Tuesday 3rd November
Meatloaf
Raspberry Bun
Wednesday 4th November
Meat & Potato Pie
Chocolate Mandarin
Sponge
Thursday 5th November
Chicken Korma
Toffee Apple Cake &
Custard
Friday 6th November
Battered Fish
Fruit Salad
Monday 19th October Fish Fingers
Jam Roly Poly & Custard
Tuesday 20th October Pasta Bolognaise
Flapjack
Wednesday 21st October
Chicken Pie
Arctic Roll & Peaches
Thursday 22nd October Beef Hot Pot
Biscuit, Cheese & Grapes
Friday 23rd October
Sausage, Potato & Beans
Halloween Biscuits
PTA Update and Forthcoming Party
Sally, Carolyn and myself would like to say a big hello to you all! We are
looking forward to some exciting times ahead with you all in the coming
school year. As always, we welcome any fundraising ideas from you and
volunteers are always welcomed with enthusiasm!
After our first informal meeting on Friday we have a few ideas that we
would like to share with you, the first being an Autumn fancy dress
party. This will be held in school on Friday 23rd October 3.30pm til
6 pm. Please see details on posters around school.
We are also asking for donations of any magazines, as current as possible,
that you have finished with (these can be adults or children's) We aim to
leave these in reception where you may purchase one for £1.50, a great
way to catch up on the latest celebrity gossip, gardening or children's
programmes at a much reduced price!
Finally, any jam jars that you may have, please bring them in! We have
many uses for them and donations throughout the year are appreciated.
Many thanks in advance, Claire Gautam
This is the main choice—there is
a vegetarian option available
every day (as per menus
sent at the start of term)
Football Report
Joey, Lewis, George, Jonny, Thomas, Alfie, Dylan, Corey, Neive and Kitty
all played in a Y3/4 football tournament at Sandylands last Friday. The
first match was 5 nil to us, then the 2nd match was 1 nil to them, 3rd
match was 3 nil to us, 4th match was 4 nil to them and then the 5th
match was 3 nil to us. Overall we came 4th . We were really proud of our
efforts. By Joey Driscoll
Can you Help?
World Prematurity Day is observed on the 17th November to raise
awareness of pre term birth and the care of premature babies world-
wide. Approximately 15 million babies are born prematurely every year, 1
in 10 around the world.
I volunteer on the neo natal unit at Bradford Royal Infirmary on behalf of
Bliss (Bliss.org.uk) and every year on World Prematurity Day we give gifts to
everyone currently spending time on the unit. This includes purple knitted
hats, one for each child. If any of our parents, grandparents or other
family members are a dab hand at knitting and would like to help out I
would be most grateful! I will need the hats for the first week in November
ideally (they must be purple!). If you need a pattern, please visit http://
www.fiberfluxblog.com/2011/02/free-pattern.html?m=1. Thank you.
Claire Gautam
Parking – Collection
Be aware that it is VERY busy at drop off and collection times. Please
consider parking at the village hall and walking up to school.
Assemblies
Next week: Thursday 22nd October it is Willow class assembly at 9am.
Friday 23rd October – achievement assembly, pupils are invited to bring
in something to show and speak about that they have achieved outside
school.
Oak and Willow class had been challenged to write a short story about
space on the back of a postcard. Amber Dobson won 2 tickets to go to
Settle Stories to see Tales from Cosmos—a story that was set in 1910
about a man shot down 9 suns so that we only had un in the whole wide
world. It was great.
Garg
rave C
of E
Prim
ary
School
Thurs
day 1
5th
Octo
ber
2015
Gargrave CE (VC) Primary School, Neville
Road, Gargrave, BD23 3RE
Tel: 01756 749433 Fax: 01756 749463
Email: admin@gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk
Website: www.gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk
See overleaf for
Holly Eyles (super reading)
Lola Dobson (excellent behaviour)
Ayaan Ali (knowing space facts—confident)
Samuel Blackwell (fantastic number task homework)
Lars Keyworth (perseverance with his can work)
Daisy Hill (working hard during paired reading)
Emma Hargraves and Megan Webb (for kindness towards other children)
Ollie Metcalfe (not giving up with his tricky work)
Zara Pratt (expressive brainbuilder work)
Every Child Counts: Every Child Contributes Issue 6
Callum & David Barker
Skipping For Schools—Wednesday 21st October
We have invited Sports Skipping for Schools to host an all day skipping coaching
session where our children will have the opportunity to learn a range of skipping
skills. Skipping on a regular basis will help improve general levels of fitness and,
along with the different skipping skills and challenges taught during the day,
children will gain new found confidence in their own physical abilities. Parents are
invited to attend the presentation at the end of the day ay 2.50pm. Ropes will
also be available to buy on the day only at a cost of £4.00 each.
White Ribbons
Vacancy—Midday Supervisor
We are looking for a fun person who can work alongside the lunchtime staff to
ensure a safe, happy and active lunchtime. The person will be fully supported by
the other members of staff—5 hrs per week, working everyday 12.00pm – 1.00pm
Term Time Only. Closing date for applications ~ Friday 6th November 2015. The job
is advertised on the NYCC website or you can obtain an application pack from
school.
Vacancy—Kitchen Assistant
We have a vacancy for a general kitchen assistant to cover long term maternity
leave. It is for 2 hours per day (11.30am-1.30pm). To apply or ask any further
questions, please contact Vivienne Sadler on 07779788585.
Parents evening
Thanks to every parent for attending to discuss the learning of your child. Feed-
back from parents included requests for a maths calculations evening and a
meeting about assessment without levels. We shall arrange both for after half
term, dates to follow. Parents of pupils in years 2 and 6 were given copies of the
criteria for a child to be awarded ‘national standard’. There are higher expecta-
tions on the pupils in all areas of the curriculum. We also had out sample test ma-
terials for both these year groups, these are available on-line – just search for sam-
ple national tests. In the spring term we shall give you more details of the tests and
the teacher assessment.
Clubs
Apologies as a few parents thought that the clubs were on this week, but they
weren’t because of parents’ evenings. They are on next week.
Oak Class
We have had a report of head lice, please check your child's hair and treat. Also
could you bring in an old shirt for the children to wear when they are doing art.
APPLE This week in Apple class we have focused on
Phonics and Maths activities. In our Phonics sessions
we have covered c, ck, and e. The children have
read words and phrases and draw pictures. In
Maths we have worked on weight and counting
and comparing different sets of objects. Thank you
for coming to our parent consultation evenings and we hope you found them useful.
OAK This week Oak class have been working really hard on their grammar and have been
coming up with some fantastic adverbs and adjectives to make sentences more
interesting. We have also focused on using some tricky punctuation; using colons, semi-
colons, bullet points and brackets. We really enjoyed our trip to Ilkley Literary Festival to
listen to Steve Cole talk. He gave the class lots of great ideas for their writing. In maths
we have been thinking about multiples and factors and learning how to recognise a
prime number.
WILLOW
We have been working hard this week on our
place value skills and accuracy when working
with money. Some of us have been ‘purchasing’
sports cars at Willow Class garage and working
out how much we can save. We have also been
developing skills in newspaper writing and using
peer marking to check we have all used
our Top Tips effectively.
BEECH We are really enjoying our work on measuring length this week.
Here are Monty and Minny measuring their playdough ‘snakes’
with their bead strings. We have continued to look at non-fiction
books in literacy and have been labelling features of a fire engine
and writing facts about fire engines and fire fighters. We watched
a very exciting video clip of a fire being put out.
ASH Thank you to everyone that came to Ash class assembly. We really enjoyed sharing all of
our work with you. We worked hard to speak clearly and confidently. In Maths we have
been playing games on the computer to practice our rapid recall of number bonds. We
have been looking at recycling in Science and had lots of ideas about what we could
recycle! Please can I remind all parents that we do not bring toys into school (unless it is
for show and tell—see timetable). We have had lots of upset over toys getting lost or
swapped, so please can you ensure that your children do not bring them.
Lisa’s
Kitchen
Monday 2nd November
Cheese & Tomato Pasta
Syrup Sponge & Custard
Tuesday 3rd November
Meatloaf
Raspberry Bun
Wednesday 4th November
Meat & Potato Pie
Chocolate Mandarin
Sponge
Thursday 5th November
Chicken Korma
Toffee Apple Cake &
Custard
Friday 6th November
Battered Fish
Fruit Salad
Monday 19th October Fish Fingers
Jam Roly Poly & Custard
Tuesday 20th October Pasta Bolognaise
Flapjack
Wednesday 21st October
Chicken Pie
Arctic Roll & Peaches
Thursday 22nd October Beef Hot Pot
Biscuit, Cheese & Grapes
Friday 23rd October
Sausage, Potato & Beans
Halloween Biscuits
PTA Update and Forthcoming Party
Sally, Carolyn and myself would like to say a big hello to you all! We are
looking forward to some exciting times ahead with you all in the coming
school year. As always, we welcome any fundraising ideas from you and
volunteers are always welcomed with enthusiasm!
After our first informal meeting on Friday we have a few ideas that we
would like to share with you, the first being an Autumn fancy dress
party. This will be held in school on Friday 23rd October 3.30pm til
6 pm. Please see details on posters around school.
We are also asking for donations of any magazines, as current as possible,
that you have finished with (these can be adults or children's) We aim to
leave these in reception where you may purchase one for £1.50, a great
way to catch up on the latest celebrity gossip, gardening or children's
programmes at a much reduced price!
Finally, any jam jars that you may have, please bring them in! We have
many uses for them and donations throughout the year are appreciated.
Many thanks in advance, Claire Gautam
This is the main choice—there is
a vegetarian option available
every day (as per menus
sent at the start of term)
Football Report
Joey, Lewis, George, Jonny, Thomas, Alfie, Dylan, Corey, Neive and Kitty
all played in a Y3/4 football tournament at Sandylands last Friday. The
first match was 5 nil to us, then the 2nd match was 1 nil to them, 3rd
match was 3 nil to us, 4th match was 4 nil to them and then the 5th
match was 3 nil to us. Overall we came 4th . We were really proud of our
efforts. By Joey Driscoll
Can you Help?
World Prematurity Day is observed on the 17th November to raise
awareness of pre term birth and the care of premature babies world-
wide. Approximately 15 million babies are born prematurely every year, 1
in 10 around the world.
I volunteer on the neo natal unit at Bradford Royal Infirmary on behalf of
Bliss (Bliss.org.uk) and every year on World Prematurity Day we give gifts to
everyone currently spending time on the unit. This includes purple knitted
hats, one for each child. If any of our parents, grandparents or other
family members are a dab hand at knitting and would like to help out I
would be most grateful! I will need the hats for the first week in November
ideally (they must be purple!). If you need a pattern, please visit http://
www.fiberfluxblog.com/2011/02/free-pattern.html?m=1. Thank you.
Claire Gautam
Parking – Collection
Be aware that it is VERY busy at drop off and collection times. Please
consider parking at the village hall and walking up to school.
Assemblies
Next week: Thursday 22nd October it is Willow class assembly at 9am.
Friday 23rd October – achievement assembly, pupils are invited to bring
in something to show and speak about that they have achieved outside
school.
Oak and Willow class had been challenged to write a short story about
space on the back of a postcard. Amber Dobson won 2 tickets to go to
Settle Stories to see Tales from Cosmos—a story that was set in 1910
about a man shot down 9 suns so that we only had un in the whole wide
world. It was great.
Garg
rave C
of E
Prim
ary
School
Thurs
day 1
5th
Octo
ber
2015
Gargrave CE (VC) Primary School, Neville
Road, Gargrave, BD23 3RE
Tel: 01756 749433 Fax: 01756 749463
Email: admin@gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk
Website: www.gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk
See overleaf for
Holly Eyles (super reading)
Lola Dobson (excellent behaviour)
Ayaan Ali (knowing space facts—confident)
Samuel Blackwell (fantastic number task homework)
Lars Keyworth (perseverance with his can work)
Daisy Hill (working hard during paired reading)
Emma Hargraves and Megan Webb (for kindness towards other children)
Ollie Metcalfe (not giving up with his tricky work)
Zara Pratt (expressive brainbuilder work)
Every Child Counts: Every Child Contributes Issue 6
Jessica Clemson-Banks
Skipping For Schools—Wednesday 21st October
We have invited Sports Skipping for Schools to host an all day skipping coaching
session where our children will have the opportunity to learn a range of skipping
skills. Skipping on a regular basis will help improve general levels of fitness and,
along with the different skipping skills and challenges taught during the day,
children will gain new found confidence in their own physical abilities. Parents are
invited to attend the presentation at the end of the day ay 2.50pm. Ropes will
also be available to buy on the day only at a cost of £4.00 each.
White Ribbons
Vacancy—Midday Supervisor
We are looking for a fun person who can work alongside the lunchtime staff to
ensure a safe, happy and active lunchtime. The person will be fully supported by
the other members of staff—5 hrs per week, working everyday 12.00pm – 1.00pm
Term Time Only. Closing date for applications ~ Friday 6th November 2015. The job
is advertised on the NYCC website or you can obtain an application pack from
school.
Vacancy—Kitchen Assistant
We have a vacancy for a general kitchen assistant to cover long term maternity
leave. It is for 2 hours per day (11.30am-1.30pm). To apply or ask any further
questions, please contact Vivienne Sadler on 07779788585.
Parents evening
Thanks to every parent for attending to discuss the learning of your child. Feed-
back from parents included requests for a maths calculations evening and a
meeting about assessment without levels. We shall arrange both for after half
term, dates to follow. Parents of pupils in years 2 and 6 were given copies of the
criteria for a child to be awarded ‘national standard’. There are higher expecta-
tions on the pupils in all areas of the curriculum. We also had out sample test ma-
terials for both these year groups, these are available on-line – just search for sam-
ple national tests. In the spring term we shall give you more details of the tests and
the teacher assessment.
Clubs
Apologies as a few parents thought that the clubs were on this week, but they
weren’t because of parents’ evenings. They are on next week.
Oak Class
We have had a report of head lice, please check your child's hair and treat. Also
could you bring in an old shirt for the children to wear when they are doing art.
APPLE This week in Apple class we have focused on
Phonics and Maths activities. In our Phonics sessions
we have covered c, ck, and e. The children have
read words and phrases and draw pictures. In
Maths we have worked on weight and counting
and comparing different sets of objects. Thank you
for coming to our parent consultation evenings and we hope you found them useful.
OAK This week Oak class have been working really hard on their grammar and have been
coming up with some fantastic adverbs and adjectives to make sentences more
interesting. We have also focused on using some tricky punctuation; using colons, semi-
colons, bullet points and brackets. We really enjoyed our trip to Ilkley Literary Festival to
listen to Steve Cole talk. He gave the class lots of great ideas for their writing. In maths
we have been thinking about multiples and factors and learning how to recognise a
prime number.
WILLOW
We have been working hard this week on our
place value skills and accuracy when working
with money. Some of us have been ‘purchasing’
sports cars at Willow Class garage and working
out how much we can save. We have also been
developing skills in newspaper writing and using
peer marking to check we have all used
our Top Tips effectively.
BEECH We are really enjoying our work on measuring length this week.
Here are Monty and Minny measuring their playdough ‘snakes’
with their bead strings. We have continued to look at non-fiction
books in literacy and have been labelling features of a fire engine
and writing facts about fire engines and fire fighters. We watched
a very exciting video clip of a fire being put out.
ASH Thank you to everyone that came to Ash class assembly. We really enjoyed sharing all of
our work with you. We worked hard to speak clearly and confidently. In Maths we have
been playing games on the computer to practice our rapid recall of number bonds. We
have been looking at recycling in Science and had lots of ideas about what we could
recycle! Please can I remind all parents that we do not bring toys into school (unless it is
for show and tell—see timetable). We have had lots of upset over toys getting lost or
swapped, so please can you ensure that your children do not bring them.
Lisa’s
Kitchen
Monday 2nd November
Cheese & Tomato Pasta
Syrup Sponge & Custard
Tuesday 3rd November
Meatloaf
Raspberry Bun
Wednesday 4th November
Meat & Potato Pie
Chocolate Mandarin
Sponge
Thursday 5th November
Chicken Korma
Toffee Apple Cake &
Custard
Friday 6th November
Battered Fish
Fruit Salad
Monday 19th October Fish Fingers
Jam Roly Poly & Custard
Tuesday 20th October Pasta Bolognaise
Flapjack
Wednesday 21st October
Chicken Pie
Arctic Roll & Peaches
Thursday 22nd October Beef Hot Pot
Biscuit, Cheese & Grapes
Friday 23rd October
Sausage, Potato & Beans
Halloween Biscuits
PTA Update and Forthcoming Party
Sally, Carolyn and myself would like to say a big hello to you all! We are
looking forward to some exciting times ahead with you all in the coming
school year. As always, we welcome any fundraising ideas from you and
volunteers are always welcomed with enthusiasm!
After our first informal meeting on Friday we have a few ideas that we
would like to share with you, the first being an Autumn fancy dress
party. This will be held in school on Friday 23rd October 3.30pm til
6 pm. Please see details on posters around school.
We are also asking for donations of any magazines, as current as possible,
that you have finished with (these can be adults or children's) We aim to
leave these in reception where you may purchase one for £1.50, a great
way to catch up on the latest celebrity gossip, gardening or children's
programmes at a much reduced price!
Finally, any jam jars that you may have, please bring them in! We have
many uses for them and donations throughout the year are appreciated.
Many thanks in advance, Claire Gautam
This is the main choice—there is
a vegetarian option available
every day (as per menus
sent at the start of term)
Football Report
Joey, Lewis, George, Jonny, Thomas, Alfie, Dylan, Corey, Neive and Kitty
all played in a Y3/4 football tournament at Sandylands last Friday. The
first match was 5 nil to us, then the 2nd match was 1 nil to them, 3rd
match was 3 nil to us, 4th match was 4 nil to them and then the 5th
match was 3 nil to us. Overall we came 4th . We were really proud of our
efforts. By Joey Driscoll
Can you Help?
World Prematurity Day is observed on the 17th November to raise
awareness of pre term birth and the care of premature babies world-
wide. Approximately 15 million babies are born prematurely every year, 1
in 10 around the world.
I volunteer on the neo natal unit at Bradford Royal Infirmary on behalf of
Bliss (Bliss.org.uk) and every year on World Prematurity Day we give gifts to
everyone currently spending time on the unit. This includes purple knitted
hats, one for each child. If any of our parents, grandparents or other
family members are a dab hand at knitting and would like to help out I
would be most grateful! I will need the hats for the first week in November
ideally (they must be purple!). If you need a pattern, please visit http://
www.fiberfluxblog.com/2011/02/free-pattern.html?m=1. Thank you.
Claire Gautam
Parking – Collection
Be aware that it is VERY busy at drop off and collection times. Please
consider parking at the village hall and walking up to school.
Assemblies
Next week: Thursday 22nd October it is Willow class assembly at 9am.
Friday 23rd October – achievement assembly, pupils are invited to bring
in something to show and speak about that they have achieved outside
school.
Oak and Willow class had been challenged to write a short story about
space on the back of a postcard. Amber Dobson won 2 tickets to go to
Settle Stories to see Tales from Cosmos—a story that was set in 1910
about a man shot down 9 suns so that we only had un in the whole wide
world. It was great.
Garg
rave C
of E
Prim
ary
School
Thurs
day 1
5th
Octo
ber
2015
Gargrave CE (VC) Primary School, Neville
Road, Gargrave, BD23 3RE
Tel: 01756 749433 Fax: 01756 749463
Email: admin@gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk
Website: www.gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk
See overleaf for
Holly Eyles (super reading)
Lola Dobson (excellent behaviour)
Ayaan Ali (knowing space facts—confident)
Samuel Blackwell (fantastic number task homework)
Lars Keyworth (perseverance with his can work)
Daisy Hill (working hard during paired reading)
Emma Hargraves and Megan Webb (for kindness towards other children)
Ollie Metcalfe (not giving up with his tricky work)
Zara Pratt (expressive brainbuilder work)
Every Child Counts: Every Child Contributes Issue 6
Thomas & Ruby Cadman-Bond
Skipping For Schools—Wednesday 21st October
We have invited Sports Skipping for Schools to host an all day skipping coaching
session where our children will have the opportunity to learn a range of skipping
skills. Skipping on a regular basis will help improve general levels of fitness and,
along with the different skipping skills and challenges taught during the day,
children will gain new found confidence in their own physical abilities. Parents are
invited to attend the presentation at the end of the day ay 2.50pm. Ropes will
also be available to buy on the day only at a cost of £4.00 each.
White Ribbons
Vacancy—Midday Supervisor
We are looking for a fun person who can work alongside the lunchtime staff to
ensure a safe, happy and active lunchtime. The person will be fully supported by
the other members of staff—5 hrs per week, working everyday 12.00pm – 1.00pm
Term Time Only. Closing date for applications ~ Friday 6th November 2015. The job
is advertised on the NYCC website or you can obtain an application pack from
school.
Vacancy—Kitchen Assistant
We have a vacancy for a general kitchen assistant to cover long term maternity
leave. It is for 2 hours per day (11.30am-1.30pm). To apply or ask any further
questions, please contact Vivienne Sadler on 07779788585.
Parents evening
Thanks to every parent for attending to discuss the learning of your child. Feed-
back from parents included requests for a maths calculations evening and a
meeting about assessment without levels. We shall arrange both for after half
term, dates to follow. Parents of pupils in years 2 and 6 were given copies of the
criteria for a child to be awarded ‘national standard’. There are higher expecta-
tions on the pupils in all areas of the curriculum. We also had out sample test ma-
terials for both these year groups, these are available on-line – just search for sam-
ple national tests. In the spring term we shall give you more details of the tests and
the teacher assessment.
Clubs
Apologies as a few parents thought that the clubs were on this week, but they
weren’t because of parents’ evenings. They are on next week.
Oak Class
We have had a report of head lice, please check your child's hair and treat. Also
could you bring in an old shirt for the children to wear when they are doing art.
APPLE This week in Apple class we have focused on
Phonics and Maths activities. In our Phonics sessions
we have covered c, ck, and e. The children have
read words and phrases and draw pictures. In
Maths we have worked on weight and counting
and comparing different sets of objects. Thank you
for coming to our parent consultation evenings and we hope you found them useful.
OAK This week Oak class have been working really hard on their grammar and have been
coming up with some fantastic adverbs and adjectives to make sentences more
interesting. We have also focused on using some tricky punctuation; using colons, semi-
colons, bullet points and brackets. We really enjoyed our trip to Ilkley Literary Festival to
listen to Steve Cole talk. He gave the class lots of great ideas for their writing. In maths
we have been thinking about multiples and factors and learning how to recognise a
prime number.
WILLOW
We have been working hard this week on our
place value skills and accuracy when working
with money. Some of us have been ‘purchasing’
sports cars at Willow Class garage and working
out how much we can save. We have also been
developing skills in newspaper writing and using
peer marking to check we have all used
our Top Tips effectively.
BEECH We are really enjoying our work on measuring length this week.
Here are Monty and Minny measuring their playdough ‘snakes’
with their bead strings. We have continued to look at non-fiction
books in literacy and have been labelling features of a fire engine
and writing facts about fire engines and fire fighters. We watched
a very exciting video clip of a fire being put out.
ASH Thank you to everyone that came to Ash class assembly. We really enjoyed sharing all of
our work with you. We worked hard to speak clearly and confidently. In Maths we have
been playing games on the computer to practice our rapid recall of number bonds. We
have been looking at recycling in Science and had lots of ideas about what we could
recycle! Please can I remind all parents that we do not bring toys into school (unless it is
for show and tell—see timetable). We have had lots of upset over toys getting lost or
swapped, so please can you ensure that your children do not bring them.
Lisa’s
Kitchen
Monday 2nd November
Cheese & Tomato Pasta
Syrup Sponge & Custard
Tuesday 3rd November
Meatloaf
Raspberry Bun
Wednesday 4th November
Meat & Potato Pie
Chocolate Mandarin
Sponge
Thursday 5th November
Chicken Korma
Toffee Apple Cake &
Custard
Friday 6th November
Battered Fish
Fruit Salad
Monday 19th October Fish Fingers
Jam Roly Poly & Custard
Tuesday 20th October Pasta Bolognaise
Flapjack
Wednesday 21st October
Chicken Pie
Arctic Roll & Peaches
Thursday 22nd October Beef Hot Pot
Biscuit, Cheese & Grapes
Friday 23rd October
Sausage, Potato & Beans
Halloween Biscuits
PTA Update and Forthcoming Party
Sally, Carolyn and myself would like to say a big hello to you all! We are
looking forward to some exciting times ahead with you all in the coming
school year. As always, we welcome any fundraising ideas from you and
volunteers are always welcomed with enthusiasm!
After our first informal meeting on Friday we have a few ideas that we
would like to share with you, the first being an Autumn fancy dress
party. This will be held in school on Friday 23rd October 3.30pm til
6 pm. Please see details on posters around school.
We are also asking for donations of any magazines, as current as possible,
that you have finished with (these can be adults or children's) We aim to
leave these in reception where you may purchase one for £1.50, a great
way to catch up on the latest celebrity gossip, gardening or children's
programmes at a much reduced price!
Finally, any jam jars that you may have, please bring them in! We have
many uses for them and donations throughout the year are appreciated.
Many thanks in advance, Claire Gautam
This is the main choice—there is
a vegetarian option available
every day (as per menus
sent at the start of term)
Football Report
Joey, Lewis, George, Jonny, Thomas, Alfie, Dylan, Corey, Neive and Kitty
all played in a Y3/4 football tournament at Sandylands last Friday. The
first match was 5 nil to us, then the 2nd match was 1 nil to them, 3rd
match was 3 nil to us, 4th match was 4 nil to them and then the 5th
match was 3 nil to us. Overall we came 4th . We were really proud of our
efforts. By Joey Driscoll
Can you Help?
World Prematurity Day is observed on the 17th November to raise
awareness of pre term birth and the care of premature babies world-
wide. Approximately 15 million babies are born prematurely every year, 1
in 10 around the world.
I volunteer on the neo natal unit at Bradford Royal Infirmary on behalf of
Bliss (Bliss.org.uk) and every year on World Prematurity Day we give gifts to
everyone currently spending time on the unit. This includes purple knitted
hats, one for each child. If any of our parents, grandparents or other
family members are a dab hand at knitting and would like to help out I
would be most grateful! I will need the hats for the first week in November
ideally (they must be purple!). If you need a pattern, please visit http://
www.fiberfluxblog.com/2011/02/free-pattern.html?m=1. Thank you.
Claire Gautam
Parking – Collection
Be aware that it is VERY busy at drop off and collection times. Please
consider parking at the village hall and walking up to school.
Assemblies
Next week: Thursday 22nd October it is Willow class assembly at 9am.
Friday 23rd October – achievement assembly, pupils are invited to bring
in something to show and speak about that they have achieved outside
school.
Oak and Willow class had been challenged to write a short story about
space on the back of a postcard. Amber Dobson won 2 tickets to go to
Settle Stories to see Tales from Cosmos—a story that was set in 1910
about a man shot down 9 suns so that we only had un in the whole wide
world. It was great.
Garg
rave C
of E
Prim
ary
School
Thurs
day 1
5th
Octo
ber
2015
Gargrave CE (VC) Primary School, Neville
Road, Gargrave, BD23 3RE
Tel: 01756 749433 Fax: 01756 749463
Email: admin@gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk
Website: www.gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk
See overleaf for
Holly Eyles (super reading)
Lola Dobson (excellent behaviour)
Ayaan Ali (knowing space facts—confident)
Samuel Blackwell (fantastic number task homework)
Lars Keyworth (perseverance with his can work)
Daisy Hill (working hard during paired reading)
Emma Hargraves and Megan Webb (for kindness towards other children)
Ollie Metcalfe (not giving up with his tricky work)
Zara Pratt (expressive brainbuilder work)
Every Child Counts: Every Child Contributes Issue 6
Emma & Katy Hargraves
Skipping For Schools—Wednesday 21st October
We have invited Sports Skipping for Schools to host an all day skipping coaching
session where our children will have the opportunity to learn a range of skipping
skills. Skipping on a regular basis will help improve general levels of fitness and,
along with the different skipping skills and challenges taught during the day,
children will gain new found confidence in their own physical abilities. Parents are
invited to attend the presentation at the end of the day ay 2.50pm. Ropes will
also be available to buy on the day only at a cost of £4.00 each.
White Ribbons
Vacancy—Midday Supervisor
We are looking for a fun person who can work alongside the lunchtime staff to
ensure a safe, happy and active lunchtime. The person will be fully supported by
the other members of staff—5 hrs per week, working everyday 12.00pm – 1.00pm
Term Time Only. Closing date for applications ~ Friday 6th November 2015. The job
is advertised on the NYCC website or you can obtain an application pack from
school.
Vacancy—Kitchen Assistant
We have a vacancy for a general kitchen assistant to cover long term maternity
leave. It is for 2 hours per day (11.30am-1.30pm). To apply or ask any further
questions, please contact Vivienne Sadler on 07779788585.
Parents evening
Thanks to every parent for attending to discuss the learning of your child. Feed-
back from parents included requests for a maths calculations evening and a
meeting about assessment without levels. We shall arrange both for after half
term, dates to follow. Parents of pupils in years 2 and 6 were given copies of the
criteria for a child to be awarded ‘national standard’. There are higher expecta-
tions on the pupils in all areas of the curriculum. We also had out sample test ma-
terials for both these year groups, these are available on-line – just search for sam-
ple national tests. In the spring term we shall give you more details of the tests and
the teacher assessment.
Clubs
Apologies as a few parents thought that the clubs were on this week, but they
weren’t because of parents’ evenings. They are on next week.
Oak Class
We have had a report of head lice, please check your child's hair and treat. Also
could you bring in an old shirt for the children to wear when they are doing art.
APPLE This week in Apple class we have focused on
Phonics and Maths activities. In our Phonics sessions
we have covered c, ck, and e. The children have
read words and phrases and draw pictures. In
Maths we have worked on weight and counting
and comparing different sets of objects. Thank you
for coming to our parent consultation evenings and we hope you found them useful.
OAK This week Oak class have been working really hard on their grammar and have been
coming up with some fantastic adverbs and adjectives to make sentences more
interesting. We have also focused on using some tricky punctuation; using colons, semi-
colons, bullet points and brackets. We really enjoyed our trip to Ilkley Literary Festival to
listen to Steve Cole talk. He gave the class lots of great ideas for their writing. In maths
we have been thinking about multiples and factors and learning how to recognise a
prime number.
WILLOW
We have been working hard this week on our
place value skills and accuracy when working
with money. Some of us have been ‘purchasing’
sports cars at Willow Class garage and working
out how much we can save. We have also been
developing skills in newspaper writing and using
peer marking to check we have all used
our Top Tips effectively.
BEECH We are really enjoying our work on measuring length this week.
Here are Monty and Minny measuring their playdough ‘snakes’
with their bead strings. We have continued to look at non-fiction
books in literacy and have been labelling features of a fire engine
and writing facts about fire engines and fire fighters. We watched
a very exciting video clip of a fire being put out.
ASH Thank you to everyone that came to Ash class assembly. We really enjoyed sharing all of
our work with you. We worked hard to speak clearly and confidently. In Maths we have
been playing games on the computer to practice our rapid recall of number bonds. We
have been looking at recycling in Science and had lots of ideas about what we could
recycle! Please can I remind all parents that we do not bring toys into school (unless it is
for show and tell—see timetable). We have had lots of upset over toys getting lost or
swapped, so please can you ensure that your children do not bring them.
Lisa’s
Kitchen
Monday 2nd November
Cheese & Tomato Pasta
Syrup Sponge & Custard
Tuesday 3rd November
Meatloaf
Raspberry Bun
Wednesday 4th November
Meat & Potato Pie
Chocolate Mandarin
Sponge
Thursday 5th November
Chicken Korma
Toffee Apple Cake &
Custard
Friday 6th November
Battered Fish
Fruit Salad
Monday 19th October Fish Fingers
Jam Roly Poly & Custard
Tuesday 20th October Pasta Bolognaise
Flapjack
Wednesday 21st October
Chicken Pie
Arctic Roll & Peaches
Thursday 22nd October Beef Hot Pot
Biscuit, Cheese & Grapes
Friday 23rd October
Sausage, Potato & Beans
Halloween Biscuits
PTA Update and Forthcoming Party
Sally, Carolyn and myself would like to say a big hello to you all! We are
looking forward to some exciting times ahead with you all in the coming
school year. As always, we welcome any fundraising ideas from you and
volunteers are always welcomed with enthusiasm!
After our first informal meeting on Friday we have a few ideas that we
would like to share with you, the first being an Autumn fancy dress
party. This will be held in school on Friday 23rd October 3.30pm til
6 pm. Please see details on posters around school.
We are also asking for donations of any magazines, as current as possible,
that you have finished with (these can be adults or children's) We aim to
leave these in reception where you may purchase one for £1.50, a great
way to catch up on the latest celebrity gossip, gardening or children's
programmes at a much reduced price!
Finally, any jam jars that you may have, please bring them in! We have
many uses for them and donations throughout the year are appreciated.
Many thanks in advance, Claire Gautam
This is the main choice—there is
a vegetarian option available
every day (as per menus
sent at the start of term)
Football Report
Joey, Lewis, George, Jonny, Thomas, Alfie, Dylan, Corey, Neive and Kitty
all played in a Y3/4 football tournament at Sandylands last Friday. The
first match was 5 nil to us, then the 2nd match was 1 nil to them, 3rd
match was 3 nil to us, 4th match was 4 nil to them and then the 5th
match was 3 nil to us. Overall we came 4th . We were really proud of our
efforts. By Joey Driscoll
Can you Help?
World Prematurity Day is observed on the 17th November to raise
awareness of pre term birth and the care of premature babies world-
wide. Approximately 15 million babies are born prematurely every year, 1
in 10 around the world.
I volunteer on the neo natal unit at Bradford Royal Infirmary on behalf of
Bliss (Bliss.org.uk) and every year on World Prematurity Day we give gifts to
everyone currently spending time on the unit. This includes purple knitted
hats, one for each child. If any of our parents, grandparents or other
family members are a dab hand at knitting and would like to help out I
would be most grateful! I will need the hats for the first week in November
ideally (they must be purple!). If you need a pattern, please visit http://
www.fiberfluxblog.com/2011/02/free-pattern.html?m=1. Thank you.
Claire Gautam
Parking – Collection
Be aware that it is VERY busy at drop off and collection times. Please
consider parking at the village hall and walking up to school.
Assemblies
Next week: Thursday 22nd October it is Willow class assembly at 9am.
Friday 23rd October – achievement assembly, pupils are invited to bring
in something to show and speak about that they have achieved outside
school.
Oak and Willow class had been challenged to write a short story about
space on the back of a postcard. Amber Dobson won 2 tickets to go to
Settle Stories to see Tales from Cosmos—a story that was set in 1910
about a man shot down 9 suns so that we only had un in the whole wide
world. It was great.
Garg
rave C
of E
Prim
ary
School
Thurs
day 1
5th
Octo
ber
2015
Gargrave CE (VC) Primary School, Neville
Road, Gargrave, BD23 3RE
Tel: 01756 749433 Fax: 01756 749463
Email: admin@gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk
Website: www.gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk
See overleaf for
Holly Eyles (super reading)
Lola Dobson (excellent behaviour)
Ayaan Ali (knowing space facts—confident)
Samuel Blackwell (fantastic number task homework)
Lars Keyworth (perseverance with his can work)
Daisy Hill (working hard during paired reading)
Emma Hargraves and Megan Webb (for kindness towards other children)
Ollie Metcalfe (not giving up with his tricky work)
Zara Pratt (expressive brainbuilder work)
Every Child Counts: Every Child Contributes Issue 6
Joey & Jack Driscoll
Skipping For Schools—Wednesday 21st October
We have invited Sports Skipping for Schools to host an all day skipping coaching
session where our children will have the opportunity to learn a range of skipping
skills. Skipping on a regular basis will help improve general levels of fitness and,
along with the different skipping skills and challenges taught during the day,
children will gain new found confidence in their own physical abilities. Parents are
invited to attend the presentation at the end of the day ay 2.50pm. Ropes will
also be available to buy on the day only at a cost of £4.00 each.
White Ribbons
Vacancy—Midday Supervisor
We are looking for a fun person who can work alongside the lunchtime staff to
ensure a safe, happy and active lunchtime. The person will be fully supported by
the other members of staff—5 hrs per week, working everyday 12.00pm – 1.00pm
Term Time Only. Closing date for applications ~ Friday 6th November 2015. The job
is advertised on the NYCC website or you can obtain an application pack from
school.
Vacancy—Kitchen Assistant
We have a vacancy for a general kitchen assistant to cover long term maternity
leave. It is for 2 hours per day (11.30am-1.30pm). To apply or ask any further
questions, please contact Vivienne Sadler on 07779788585.
Parents evening
Thanks to every parent for attending to discuss the learning of your child. Feed-
back from parents included requests for a maths calculations evening and a
meeting about assessment without levels. We shall arrange both for after half
term, dates to follow. Parents of pupils in years 2 and 6 were given copies of the
criteria for a child to be awarded ‘national standard’. There are higher expecta-
tions on the pupils in all areas of the curriculum. We also had out sample test ma-
terials for both these year groups, these are available on-line – just search for sam-
ple national tests. In the spring term we shall give you more details of the tests and
the teacher assessment.
Clubs
Apologies as a few parents thought that the clubs were on this week, but they
weren’t because of parents’ evenings. They are on next week.
Oak Class
We have had a report of head lice, please check your child's hair and treat. Also
could you bring in an old shirt for the children to wear when they are doing art.
APPLE This week in Apple class we have focused on
Phonics and Maths activities. In our Phonics sessions
we have covered c, ck, and e. The children have
read words and phrases and draw pictures. In
Maths we have worked on weight and counting
and comparing different sets of objects. Thank you
for coming to our parent consultation evenings and we hope you found them useful.
OAK This week Oak class have been working really hard on their grammar and have been
coming up with some fantastic adverbs and adjectives to make sentences more
interesting. We have also focused on using some tricky punctuation; using colons, semi-
colons, bullet points and brackets. We really enjoyed our trip to Ilkley Literary Festival to
listen to Steve Cole talk. He gave the class lots of great ideas for their writing. In maths
we have been thinking about multiples and factors and learning how to recognise a
prime number.
WILLOW
We have been working hard this week on our
place value skills and accuracy when working
with money. Some of us have been ‘purchasing’
sports cars at Willow Class garage and working
out how much we can save. We have also been
developing skills in newspaper writing and using
peer marking to check we have all used
our Top Tips effectively.
BEECH We are really enjoying our work on measuring length this week.
Here are Monty and Minny measuring their playdough ‘snakes’
with their bead strings. We have continued to look at non-fiction
books in literacy and have been labelling features of a fire engine
and writing facts about fire engines and fire fighters. We watched
a very exciting video clip of a fire being put out.
ASH Thank you to everyone that came to Ash class assembly. We really enjoyed sharing all of
our work with you. We worked hard to speak clearly and confidently. In Maths we have
been playing games on the computer to practice our rapid recall of number bonds. We
have been looking at recycling in Science and had lots of ideas about what we could
recycle! Please can I remind all parents that we do not bring toys into school (unless it is
for show and tell—see timetable). We have had lots of upset over toys getting lost or
swapped, so please can you ensure that your children do not bring them.
Lisa’s
Kitchen
Monday 2nd November
Cheese & Tomato Pasta
Syrup Sponge & Custard
Tuesday 3rd November
Meatloaf
Raspberry Bun
Wednesday 4th November
Meat & Potato Pie
Chocolate Mandarin
Sponge
Thursday 5th November
Chicken Korma
Toffee Apple Cake &
Custard
Friday 6th November
Battered Fish
Fruit Salad
Monday 19th October Fish Fingers
Jam Roly Poly & Custard
Tuesday 20th October Pasta Bolognaise
Flapjack
Wednesday 21st October
Chicken Pie
Arctic Roll & Peaches
Thursday 22nd October Beef Hot Pot
Biscuit, Cheese & Grapes
Friday 23rd October
Sausage, Potato & Beans
Halloween Biscuits
PTA Update and Forthcoming Party
Sally, Carolyn and myself would like to say a big hello to you all! We are
looking forward to some exciting times ahead with you all in the coming
school year. As always, we welcome any fundraising ideas from you and
volunteers are always welcomed with enthusiasm!
After our first informal meeting on Friday we have a few ideas that we
would like to share with you, the first being an Autumn fancy dress
party. This will be held in school on Friday 23rd October 3.30pm til
6 pm. Please see details on posters around school.
We are also asking for donations of any magazines, as current as possible,
that you have finished with (these can be adults or children's) We aim to
leave these in reception where you may purchase one for £1.50, a great
way to catch up on the latest celebrity gossip, gardening or children's
programmes at a much reduced price!
Finally, any jam jars that you may have, please bring them in! We have
many uses for them and donations throughout the year are appreciated.
Many thanks in advance, Claire Gautam
This is the main choice—there is
a vegetarian option available
every day (as per menus
sent at the start of term)
Football Report
Joey, Lewis, George, Jonny, Thomas, Alfie, Dylan, Corey, Neive and Kitty
all played in a Y3/4 football tournament at Sandylands last Friday. The
first match was 5 nil to us, then the 2nd match was 1 nil to them, 3rd
match was 3 nil to us, 4th match was 4 nil to them and then the 5th
match was 3 nil to us. Overall we came 4th . We were really proud of our
efforts. By Joey Driscoll
Can you Help?
World Prematurity Day is observed on the 17th November to raise
awareness of pre term birth and the care of premature babies world-
wide. Approximately 15 million babies are born prematurely every year, 1
in 10 around the world.
I volunteer on the neo natal unit at Bradford Royal Infirmary on behalf of
Bliss (Bliss.org.uk) and every year on World Prematurity Day we give gifts to
everyone currently spending time on the unit. This includes purple knitted
hats, one for each child. If any of our parents, grandparents or other
family members are a dab hand at knitting and would like to help out I
would be most grateful! I will need the hats for the first week in November
ideally (they must be purple!). If you need a pattern, please visit http://
www.fiberfluxblog.com/2011/02/free-pattern.html?m=1. Thank you.
Claire Gautam
Parking – Collection
Be aware that it is VERY busy at drop off and collection times. Please
consider parking at the village hall and walking up to school.
Assemblies
Next week: Thursday 22nd October it is Willow class assembly at 9am.
Friday 23rd October – achievement assembly, pupils are invited to bring
in something to show and speak about that they have achieved outside
school.
Oak and Willow class had been challenged to write a short story about
space on the back of a postcard. Amber Dobson won 2 tickets to go to
Settle Stories to see Tales from Cosmos—a story that was set in 1910
about a man shot down 9 suns so that we only had un in the whole wide
world. It was great.
Garg
rave C
of E
Prim
ary
School
Thurs
day 1
5th
Octo
ber
2015
Gargrave CE (VC) Primary School, Neville
Road, Gargrave, BD23 3RE
Tel: 01756 749433 Fax: 01756 749463
Email: admin@gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk
Website: www.gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk
See overleaf for
Holly Eyles (super reading)
Lola Dobson (excellent behaviour)
Ayaan Ali (knowing space facts—confident)
Samuel Blackwell (fantastic number task homework)
Lars Keyworth (perseverance with his can work)
Daisy Hill (working hard during paired reading)
Emma Hargraves and Megan Webb (for kindness towards other children)
Ollie Metcalfe (not giving up with his tricky work)
Zara Pratt (expressive brainbuilder work)
Every Child Counts: Every Child Contributes Issue 6
Megan Webb
Skipping For Schools—Wednesday 21st October
We have invited Sports Skipping for Schools to host an all day skipping coaching
session where our children will have the opportunity to learn a range of skipping
skills. Skipping on a regular basis will help improve general levels of fitness and,
along with the different skipping skills and challenges taught during the day,
children will gain new found confidence in their own physical abilities. Parents are
invited to attend the presentation at the end of the day ay 2.50pm. Ropes will
also be available to buy on the day only at a cost of £4.00 each.
White Ribbons
Vacancy—Midday Supervisor
We are looking for a fun person who can work alongside the lunchtime staff to
ensure a safe, happy and active lunchtime. The person will be fully supported by
the other members of staff—5 hrs per week, working everyday 12.00pm – 1.00pm
Term Time Only. Closing date for applications ~ Friday 6th November 2015. The job
is advertised on the NYCC website or you can obtain an application pack from
school.
Vacancy—Kitchen Assistant
We have a vacancy for a general kitchen assistant to cover long term maternity
leave. It is for 2 hours per day (11.30am-1.30pm). To apply or ask any further
questions, please contact Vivienne Sadler on 07779788585.
Parents evening
Thanks to every parent for attending to discuss the learning of your child. Feed-
back from parents included requests for a maths calculations evening and a
meeting about assessment without levels. We shall arrange both for after half
term, dates to follow. Parents of pupils in years 2 and 6 were given copies of the
criteria for a child to be awarded ‘national standard’. There are higher expecta-
tions on the pupils in all areas of the curriculum. We also had out sample test ma-
terials for both these year groups, these are available on-line – just search for sam-
ple national tests. In the spring term we shall give you more details of the tests and
the teacher assessment.
Clubs
Apologies as a few parents thought that the clubs were on this week, but they
weren’t because of parents’ evenings. They are on next week.
Oak Class
We have had a report of head lice, please check your child's hair and treat. Also
could you bring in an old shirt for the children to wear when they are doing art.
APPLE This week in Apple class we have focused on
Phonics and Maths activities. In our Phonics sessions
we have covered c, ck, and e. The children have
read words and phrases and draw pictures. In
Maths we have worked on weight and counting
and comparing different sets of objects. Thank you
for coming to our parent consultation evenings and we hope you found them useful.
OAK This week Oak class have been working really hard on their grammar and have been
coming up with some fantastic adverbs and adjectives to make sentences more
interesting. We have also focused on using some tricky punctuation; using colons, semi-
colons, bullet points and brackets. We really enjoyed our trip to Ilkley Literary Festival to
listen to Steve Cole talk. He gave the class lots of great ideas for their writing. In maths
we have been thinking about multiples and factors and learning how to recognise a
prime number.
WILLOW
We have been working hard this week on our
place value skills and accuracy when working
with money. Some of us have been ‘purchasing’
sports cars at Willow Class garage and working
out how much we can save. We have also been
developing skills in newspaper writing and using
peer marking to check we have all used
our Top Tips effectively.
BEECH We are really enjoying our work on measuring length this week.
Here are Monty and Minny measuring their playdough ‘snakes’
with their bead strings. We have continued to look at non-fiction
books in literacy and have been labelling features of a fire engine
and writing facts about fire engines and fire fighters. We watched
a very exciting video clip of a fire being put out.
ASH Thank you to everyone that came to Ash class assembly. We really enjoyed sharing all of
our work with you. We worked hard to speak clearly and confidently. In Maths we have
been playing games on the computer to practice our rapid recall of number bonds. We
have been looking at recycling in Science and had lots of ideas about what we could
recycle! Please can I remind all parents that we do not bring toys into school (unless it is
for show and tell—see timetable). We have had lots of upset over toys getting lost or
swapped, so please can you ensure that your children do not bring them.
Lisa’s
Kitchen
Monday 2nd November
Cheese & Tomato Pasta
Syrup Sponge & Custard
Tuesday 3rd November
Meatloaf
Raspberry Bun
Wednesday 4th November
Meat & Potato Pie
Chocolate Mandarin
Sponge
Thursday 5th November
Chicken Korma
Toffee Apple Cake &
Custard
Friday 6th November
Battered Fish
Fruit Salad
Monday 19th October Fish Fingers
Jam Roly Poly & Custard
Tuesday 20th October Pasta Bolognaise
Flapjack
Wednesday 21st October
Chicken Pie
Arctic Roll & Peaches
Thursday 22nd October Beef Hot Pot
Biscuit, Cheese & Grapes
Friday 23rd October
Sausage, Potato & Beans
Halloween Biscuits
PTA Update and Forthcoming Party
Sally, Carolyn and myself would like to say a big hello to you all! We are
looking forward to some exciting times ahead with you all in the coming
school year. As always, we welcome any fundraising ideas from you and
volunteers are always welcomed with enthusiasm!
After our first informal meeting on Friday we have a few ideas that we
would like to share with you, the first being an Autumn fancy dress
party. This will be held in school on Friday 23rd October 3.30pm til
6 pm. Please see details on posters around school.
We are also asking for donations of any magazines, as current as possible,
that you have finished with (these can be adults or children's) We aim to
leave these in reception where you may purchase one for £1.50, a great
way to catch up on the latest celebrity gossip, gardening or children's
programmes at a much reduced price!
Finally, any jam jars that you may have, please bring them in! We have
many uses for them and donations throughout the year are appreciated.
Many thanks in advance, Claire Gautam
This is the main choice—there is
a vegetarian option available
every day (as per menus
sent at the start of term)
Football Report
Joey, Lewis, George, Jonny, Thomas, Alfie, Dylan, Corey, Neive and Kitty
all played in a Y3/4 football tournament at Sandylands last Friday. The
first match was 5 nil to us, then the 2nd match was 1 nil to them, 3rd
match was 3 nil to us, 4th match was 4 nil to them and then the 5th
match was 3 nil to us. Overall we came 4th . We were really proud of our
efforts. By Joey Driscoll
Can you Help?
World Prematurity Day is observed on the 17th November to raise
awareness of pre term birth and the care of premature babies world-
wide. Approximately 15 million babies are born prematurely every year, 1
in 10 around the world.
I volunteer on the neo natal unit at Bradford Royal Infirmary on behalf of
Bliss (Bliss.org.uk) and every year on World Prematurity Day we give gifts to
everyone currently spending time on the unit. This includes purple knitted
hats, one for each child. If any of our parents, grandparents or other
family members are a dab hand at knitting and would like to help out I
would be most grateful! I will need the hats for the first week in November
ideally (they must be purple!). If you need a pattern, please visit http://
www.fiberfluxblog.com/2011/02/free-pattern.html?m=1. Thank you.
Claire Gautam
Parking – Collection
Be aware that it is VERY busy at drop off and collection times. Please
consider parking at the village hall and walking up to school.
Assemblies
Next week: Thursday 22nd October it is Willow class assembly at 9am.
Friday 23rd October – achievement assembly, pupils are invited to bring
in something to show and speak about that they have achieved outside
school.
Oak and Willow class had been challenged to write a short story about
space on the back of a postcard. Amber Dobson won 2 tickets to go to
Settle Stories to see Tales from Cosmos—a story that was set in 1910
about a man shot down 9 suns so that we only had un in the whole wide
world. It was great.
Garg
rave C
of E
Prim
ary
School
Thurs
day 1
5th
Octo
ber
2015
Gargrave CE (VC) Primary School, Neville
Road, Gargrave, BD23 3RE
Tel: 01756 749433 Fax: 01756 749463
Email: admin@gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk
Website: www.gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk
See overleaf for
Holly Eyles (super reading)
Lola Dobson (excellent behaviour)
Ayaan Ali (knowing space facts—confident)
Samuel Blackwell (fantastic number task homework)
Lars Keyworth (perseverance with his can work)
Daisy Hill (working hard during paired reading)
Emma Hargraves and Megan Webb (for kindness towards other children)
Ollie Metcalfe (not giving up with his tricky work)
Zara Pratt (expressive brainbuilder work)
Every Child Counts: Every Child Contributes Issue 6
Grace Galvin
Skipping For Schools—Wednesday 21st October
We have invited Sports Skipping for Schools to host an all day skipping coaching
session where our children will have the opportunity to learn a range of skipping
skills. Skipping on a regular basis will help improve general levels of fitness and,
along with the different skipping skills and challenges taught during the day,
children will gain new found confidence in their own physical abilities. Parents are
invited to attend the presentation at the end of the day ay 2.50pm. Ropes will
also be available to buy on the day only at a cost of £4.00 each.
White Ribbons
Vacancy—Midday Supervisor
We are looking for a fun person who can work alongside the lunchtime staff to
ensure a safe, happy and active lunchtime. The person will be fully supported by
the other members of staff—5 hrs per week, working everyday 12.00pm – 1.00pm
Term Time Only. Closing date for applications ~ Friday 6th November 2015. The job
is advertised on the NYCC website or you can obtain an application pack from
school.
Vacancy—Kitchen Assistant
We have a vacancy for a general kitchen assistant to cover long term maternity
leave. It is for 2 hours per day (11.30am-1.30pm). To apply or ask any further
questions, please contact Vivienne Sadler on 07779788585.
Parents evening
Thanks to every parent for attending to discuss the learning of your child. Feed-
back from parents included requests for a maths calculations evening and a
meeting about assessment without levels. We shall arrange both for after half
term, dates to follow. Parents of pupils in years 2 and 6 were given copies of the
criteria for a child to be awarded ‘national standard’. There are higher expecta-
tions on the pupils in all areas of the curriculum. We also had out sample test ma-
terials for both these year groups, these are available on-line – just search for sam-
ple national tests. In the spring term we shall give you more details of the tests and
the teacher assessment.
Clubs
Apologies as a few parents thought that the clubs were on this week, but they
weren’t because of parents’ evenings. They are on next week.
Oak Class
We have had a report of head lice, please check your child's hair and treat. Also
could you bring in an old shirt for the children to wear when they are doing art.
APPLE This week in Apple class we have focused on
Phonics and Maths activities. In our Phonics sessions
we have covered c, ck, and e. The children have
read words and phrases and draw pictures. In
Maths we have worked on weight and counting
and comparing different sets of objects. Thank you
for coming to our parent consultation evenings and we hope you found them useful.
OAK This week Oak class have been working really hard on their grammar and have been
coming up with some fantastic adverbs and adjectives to make sentences more
interesting. We have also focused on using some tricky punctuation; using colons, semi-
colons, bullet points and brackets. We really enjoyed our trip to Ilkley Literary Festival to
listen to Steve Cole talk. He gave the class lots of great ideas for their writing. In maths
we have been thinking about multiples and factors and learning how to recognise a
prime number.
WILLOW
We have been working hard this week on our
place value skills and accuracy when working
with money. Some of us have been ‘purchasing’
sports cars at Willow Class garage and working
out how much we can save. We have also been
developing skills in newspaper writing and using
peer marking to check we have all used
our Top Tips effectively.
BEECH We are really enjoying our work on measuring length this week.
Here are Monty and Minny measuring their playdough ‘snakes’
with their bead strings. We have continued to look at non-fiction
books in literacy and have been labelling features of a fire engine
and writing facts about fire engines and fire fighters. We watched
a very exciting video clip of a fire being put out.
ASH Thank you to everyone that came to Ash class assembly. We really enjoyed sharing all of
our work with you. We worked hard to speak clearly and confidently. In Maths we have
been playing games on the computer to practice our rapid recall of number bonds. We
have been looking at recycling in Science and had lots of ideas about what we could
recycle! Please can I remind all parents that we do not bring toys into school (unless it is
for show and tell—see timetable). We have had lots of upset over toys getting lost or
swapped, so please can you ensure that your children do not bring them.
Lisa’s
Kitchen
Monday 2nd November
Cheese & Tomato Pasta
Syrup Sponge & Custard
Tuesday 3rd November
Meatloaf
Raspberry Bun
Wednesday 4th November
Meat & Potato Pie
Chocolate Mandarin
Sponge
Thursday 5th November
Chicken Korma
Toffee Apple Cake &
Custard
Friday 6th November
Battered Fish
Fruit Salad
Monday 19th October Fish Fingers
Jam Roly Poly & Custard
Tuesday 20th October Pasta Bolognaise
Flapjack
Wednesday 21st October
Chicken Pie
Arctic Roll & Peaches
Thursday 22nd October Beef Hot Pot
Biscuit, Cheese & Grapes
Friday 23rd October
Sausage, Potato & Beans
Halloween Biscuits
PTA Update and Forthcoming Party
Sally, Carolyn and myself would like to say a big hello to you all! We are
looking forward to some exciting times ahead with you all in the coming
school year. As always, we welcome any fundraising ideas from you and
volunteers are always welcomed with enthusiasm!
After our first informal meeting on Friday we have a few ideas that we
would like to share with you, the first being an Autumn fancy dress
party. This will be held in school on Friday 23rd October 3.30pm til
6 pm. Please see details on posters around school.
We are also asking for donations of any magazines, as current as possible,
that you have finished with (these can be adults or children's) We aim to
leave these in reception where you may purchase one for £1.50, a great
way to catch up on the latest celebrity gossip, gardening or children's
programmes at a much reduced price!
Finally, any jam jars that you may have, please bring them in! We have
many uses for them and donations throughout the year are appreciated.
Many thanks in advance, Claire Gautam
This is the main choice—there is
a vegetarian option available
every day (as per menus
sent at the start of term)
Football Report
Joey, Lewis, George, Jonny, Thomas, Alfie, Dylan, Corey, Neive and Kitty
all played in a Y3/4 football tournament at Sandylands last Friday. The
first match was 5 nil to us, then the 2nd match was 1 nil to them, 3rd
match was 3 nil to us, 4th match was 4 nil to them and then the 5th
match was 3 nil to us. Overall we came 4th . We were really proud of our
efforts. By Joey Driscoll
Can you Help?
World Prematurity Day is observed on the 17th November to raise
awareness of pre term birth and the care of premature babies world-
wide. Approximately 15 million babies are born prematurely every year, 1
in 10 around the world.
I volunteer on the neo natal unit at Bradford Royal Infirmary on behalf of
Bliss (Bliss.org.uk) and every year on World Prematurity Day we give gifts to
everyone currently spending time on the unit. This includes purple knitted
hats, one for each child. If any of our parents, grandparents or other
family members are a dab hand at knitting and would like to help out I
would be most grateful! I will need the hats for the first week in November
ideally (they must be purple!). If you need a pattern, please visit http://
www.fiberfluxblog.com/2011/02/free-pattern.html?m=1. Thank you.
Claire Gautam
Parking – Collection
Be aware that it is VERY busy at drop off and collection times. Please
consider parking at the village hall and walking up to school.
Assemblies
Next week: Thursday 22nd October it is Willow class assembly at 9am.
Friday 23rd October – achievement assembly, pupils are invited to bring
in something to show and speak about that they have achieved outside
school.
Oak and Willow class had been challenged to write a short story about
space on the back of a postcard. Amber Dobson won 2 tickets to go to
Settle Stories to see Tales from Cosmos—a story that was set in 1910
about a man shot down 9 suns so that we only had un in the whole wide
world. It was great.
Garg
rave C
of E
Prim
ary
School
Thurs
day 1
5th
Octo
ber
2015
Gargrave CE (VC) Primary School, Neville
Road, Gargrave, BD23 3RE
Tel: 01756 749433 Fax: 01756 749463
Email: admin@gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk
Website: www.gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk
See overleaf for
Holly Eyles (super reading)
Lola Dobson (excellent behaviour)
Ayaan Ali (knowing space facts—confident)
Samuel Blackwell (fantastic number task homework)
Lars Keyworth (perseverance with his can work)
Daisy Hill (working hard during paired reading)
Emma Hargraves and Megan Webb (for kindness towards other children)
Ollie Metcalfe (not giving up with his tricky work)
Zara Pratt (expressive brainbuilder work)
Every Child Counts: Every Child Contributes Issue 6
Alfie & Dylan Panter
Skipping For Schools—Wednesday 21st October
We have invited Sports Skipping for Schools to host an all day skipping coaching
session where our children will have the opportunity to learn a range of skipping
skills. Skipping on a regular basis will help improve general levels of fitness and,
along with the different skipping skills and challenges taught during the day,
children will gain new found confidence in their own physical abilities. Parents are
invited to attend the presentation at the end of the day ay 2.50pm. Ropes will
also be available to buy on the day only at a cost of £4.00 each.
White Ribbons
Vacancy—Midday Supervisor
We are looking for a fun person who can work alongside the lunchtime staff to
ensure a safe, happy and active lunchtime. The person will be fully supported by
the other members of staff—5 hrs per week, working everyday 12.00pm – 1.00pm
Term Time Only. Closing date for applications ~ Friday 6th November 2015. The job
is advertised on the NYCC website or you can obtain an application pack from
school.
Vacancy—Kitchen Assistant
We have a vacancy for a general kitchen assistant to cover long term maternity
leave. It is for 2 hours per day (11.30am-1.30pm). To apply or ask any further
questions, please contact Vivienne Sadler on 07779788585.
Parents evening
Thanks to every parent for attending to discuss the learning of your child. Feed-
back from parents included requests for a maths calculations evening and a
meeting about assessment without levels. We shall arrange both for after half
term, dates to follow. Parents of pupils in years 2 and 6 were given copies of the
criteria for a child to be awarded ‘national standard’. There are higher expecta-
tions on the pupils in all areas of the curriculum. We also had out sample test ma-
terials for both these year groups, these are available on-line – just search for sam-
ple national tests. In the spring term we shall give you more details of the tests and
the teacher assessment.
Clubs
Apologies as a few parents thought that the clubs were on this week, but they
weren’t because of parents’ evenings. They are on next week.
Oak Class
We have had a report of head lice, please check your child's hair and treat. Also
could you bring in an old shirt for the children to wear when they are doing art.
APPLE This week in Apple class we have focused on
Phonics and Maths activities. In our Phonics sessions
we have covered c, ck, and e. The children have
read words and phrases and draw pictures. In
Maths we have worked on weight and counting
and comparing different sets of objects. Thank you
for coming to our parent consultation evenings and we hope you found them useful.
OAK This week Oak class have been working really hard on their grammar and have been
coming up with some fantastic adverbs and adjectives to make sentences more
interesting. We have also focused on using some tricky punctuation; using colons, semi-
colons, bullet points and brackets. We really enjoyed our trip to Ilkley Literary Festival to
listen to Steve Cole talk. He gave the class lots of great ideas for their writing. In maths
we have been thinking about multiples and factors and learning how to recognise a
prime number.
WILLOW
We have been working hard this week on our
place value skills and accuracy when working
with money. Some of us have been ‘purchasing’
sports cars at Willow Class garage and working
out how much we can save. We have also been
developing skills in newspaper writing and using
peer marking to check we have all used
our Top Tips effectively.
BEECH We are really enjoying our work on measuring length this week.
Here are Monty and Minny measuring their playdough ‘snakes’
with their bead strings. We have continued to look at non-fiction
books in literacy and have been labelling features of a fire engine
and writing facts about fire engines and fire fighters. We watched
a very exciting video clip of a fire being put out.
ASH Thank you to everyone that came to Ash class assembly. We really enjoyed sharing all of
our work with you. We worked hard to speak clearly and confidently. In Maths we have
been playing games on the computer to practice our rapid recall of number bonds. We
have been looking at recycling in Science and had lots of ideas about what we could
recycle! Please can I remind all parents that we do not bring toys into school (unless it is
for show and tell—see timetable). We have had lots of upset over toys getting lost or
swapped, so please can you ensure that your children do not bring them.
Lisa’s
Kitchen
Monday 2nd November
Cheese & Tomato Pasta
Syrup Sponge & Custard
Tuesday 3rd November
Meatloaf
Raspberry Bun
Wednesday 4th November
Meat & Potato Pie
Chocolate Mandarin
Sponge
Thursday 5th November
Chicken Korma
Toffee Apple Cake &
Custard
Friday 6th November
Battered Fish
Fruit Salad
Monday 19th October Fish Fingers
Jam Roly Poly & Custard
Tuesday 20th October Pasta Bolognaise
Flapjack
Wednesday 21st October
Chicken Pie
Arctic Roll & Peaches
Thursday 22nd October Beef Hot Pot
Biscuit, Cheese & Grapes
Friday 23rd October
Sausage, Potato & Beans
Halloween Biscuits
PTA Update and Forthcoming Party
Sally, Carolyn and myself would like to say a big hello to you all! We are
looking forward to some exciting times ahead with you all in the coming
school year. As always, we welcome any fundraising ideas from you and
volunteers are always welcomed with enthusiasm!
After our first informal meeting on Friday we have a few ideas that we
would like to share with you, the first being an Autumn fancy dress
party. This will be held in school on Friday 23rd October 3.30pm til
6 pm. Please see details on posters around school.
We are also asking for donations of any magazines, as current as possible,
that you have finished with (these can be adults or children's) We aim to
leave these in reception where you may purchase one for £1.50, a great
way to catch up on the latest celebrity gossip, gardening or children's
programmes at a much reduced price!
Finally, any jam jars that you may have, please bring them in! We have
many uses for them and donations throughout the year are appreciated.
Many thanks in advance, Claire Gautam
This is the main choice—there is
a vegetarian option available
every day (as per menus
sent at the start of term)
Football Report
Joey, Lewis, George, Jonny, Thomas, Alfie, Dylan, Corey, Neive and Kitty
all played in a Y3/4 football tournament at Sandylands last Friday. The
first match was 5 nil to us, then the 2nd match was 1 nil to them, 3rd
match was 3 nil to us, 4th match was 4 nil to them and then the 5th
match was 3 nil to us. Overall we came 4th . We were really proud of our
efforts. By Joey Driscoll
Can you Help?
World Prematurity Day is observed on the 17th November to raise
awareness of pre term birth and the care of premature babies world-
wide. Approximately 15 million babies are born prematurely every year, 1
in 10 around the world.
I volunteer on the neo natal unit at Bradford Royal Infirmary on behalf of
Bliss (Bliss.org.uk) and every year on World Prematurity Day we give gifts to
everyone currently spending time on the unit. This includes purple knitted
hats, one for each child. If any of our parents, grandparents or other
family members are a dab hand at knitting and would like to help out I
would be most grateful! I will need the hats for the first week in November
ideally (they must be purple!). If you need a pattern, please visit http://
www.fiberfluxblog.com/2011/02/free-pattern.html?m=1. Thank you.
Claire Gautam
Parking – Collection
Be aware that it is VERY busy at drop off and collection times. Please
consider parking at the village hall and walking up to school.
Assemblies
Next week: Thursday 22nd October it is Willow class assembly at 9am.
Friday 23rd October – achievement assembly, pupils are invited to bring
in something to show and speak about that they have achieved outside
school.
Oak and Willow class had been challenged to write a short story about
space on the back of a postcard. Amber Dobson won 2 tickets to go to
Settle Stories to see Tales from Cosmos—a story that was set in 1910
about a man shot down 9 suns so that we only had un in the whole wide
world. It was great.
Garg
rave C
of E
Prim
ary
School
Thurs
day 1
5th
Octo
ber
2015
Gargrave CE (VC) Primary School, Neville
Road, Gargrave, BD23 3RE
Tel: 01756 749433 Fax: 01756 749463
Email: admin@gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk
Website: www.gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk
See overleaf for
Holly Eyles (super reading)
Lola Dobson (excellent behaviour)
Ayaan Ali (knowing space facts—confident)
Samuel Blackwell (fantastic number task homework)
Lars Keyworth (perseverance with his can work)
Daisy Hill (working hard during paired reading)
Emma Hargraves and Megan Webb (for kindness towards other children)
Ollie Metcalfe (not giving up with his tricky work)
Zara Pratt (expressive brainbuilder work)
Every Child Counts: Every Child Contributes Issue 6
Oliver & Daisy Hill
Skipping For Schools—Wednesday 21st October
We have invited Sports Skipping for Schools to host an all day skipping coaching
session where our children will have the opportunity to learn a range of skipping
skills. Skipping on a regular basis will help improve general levels of fitness and,
along with the different skipping skills and challenges taught during the day,
children will gain new found confidence in their own physical abilities. Parents are
invited to attend the presentation at the end of the day ay 2.50pm. Ropes will
also be available to buy on the day only at a cost of £4.00 each.
White Ribbons
Vacancy—Midday Supervisor
We are looking for a fun person who can work alongside the lunchtime staff to
ensure a safe, happy and active lunchtime. The person will be fully supported by
the other members of staff—5 hrs per week, working everyday 12.00pm – 1.00pm
Term Time Only. Closing date for applications ~ Friday 6th November 2015. The job
is advertised on the NYCC website or you can obtain an application pack from
school.
Vacancy—Kitchen Assistant
We have a vacancy for a general kitchen assistant to cover long term maternity
leave. It is for 2 hours per day (11.30am-1.30pm). To apply or ask any further
questions, please contact Vivienne Sadler on 07779788585.
Parents evening
Thanks to every parent for attending to discuss the learning of your child. Feed-
back from parents included requests for a maths calculations evening and a
meeting about assessment without levels. We shall arrange both for after half
term, dates to follow. Parents of pupils in years 2 and 6 were given copies of the
criteria for a child to be awarded ‘national standard’. There are higher expecta-
tions on the pupils in all areas of the curriculum. We also had out sample test ma-
terials for both these year groups, these are available on-line – just search for sam-
ple national tests. In the spring term we shall give you more details of the tests and
the teacher assessment.
Clubs
Apologies as a few parents thought that the clubs were on this week, but they
weren’t because of parents’ evenings. They are on next week.
Oak Class
We have had a report of head lice, please check your child's hair and treat. Also
could you bring in an old shirt for the children to wear when they are doing art.
APPLE This week in Apple class we have focused on
Phonics and Maths activities. In our Phonics sessions
we have covered c, ck, and e. The children have
read words and phrases and draw pictures. In
Maths we have worked on weight and counting
and comparing different sets of objects. Thank you
for coming to our parent consultation evenings and we hope you found them useful.
OAK This week Oak class have been working really hard on their grammar and have been
coming up with some fantastic adverbs and adjectives to make sentences more
interesting. We have also focused on using some tricky punctuation; using colons, semi-
colons, bullet points and brackets. We really enjoyed our trip to Ilkley Literary Festival to
listen to Steve Cole talk. He gave the class lots of great ideas for their writing. In maths
we have been thinking about multiples and factors and learning how to recognise a
prime number.
WILLOW
We have been working hard this week on our
place value skills and accuracy when working
with money. Some of us have been ‘purchasing’
sports cars at Willow Class garage and working
out how much we can save. We have also been
developing skills in newspaper writing and using
peer marking to check we have all used
our Top Tips effectively.
BEECH We are really enjoying our work on measuring length this week.
Here are Monty and Minny measuring their playdough ‘snakes’
with their bead strings. We have continued to look at non-fiction
books in literacy and have been labelling features of a fire engine
and writing facts about fire engines and fire fighters. We watched
a very exciting video clip of a fire being put out.
ASH Thank you to everyone that came to Ash class assembly. We really enjoyed sharing all of
our work with you. We worked hard to speak clearly and confidently. In Maths we have
been playing games on the computer to practice our rapid recall of number bonds. We
have been looking at recycling in Science and had lots of ideas about what we could
recycle! Please can I remind all parents that we do not bring toys into school (unless it is
for show and tell—see timetable). We have had lots of upset over toys getting lost or
swapped, so please can you ensure that your children do not bring them.
Lisa’s
Kitchen
Monday 2nd November
Cheese & Tomato Pasta
Syrup Sponge & Custard
Tuesday 3rd November
Meatloaf
Raspberry Bun
Wednesday 4th November
Meat & Potato Pie
Chocolate Mandarin
Sponge
Thursday 5th November
Chicken Korma
Toffee Apple Cake &
Custard
Friday 6th November
Battered Fish
Fruit Salad
Monday 19th October Fish Fingers
Jam Roly Poly & Custard
Tuesday 20th October Pasta Bolognaise
Flapjack
Wednesday 21st October
Chicken Pie
Arctic Roll & Peaches
Thursday 22nd October Beef Hot Pot
Biscuit, Cheese & Grapes
Friday 23rd October
Sausage, Potato & Beans
Halloween Biscuits
PTA Update and Forthcoming Party
Sally, Carolyn and myself would like to say a big hello to you all! We are
looking forward to some exciting times ahead with you all in the coming
school year. As always, we welcome any fundraising ideas from you and
volunteers are always welcomed with enthusiasm!
After our first informal meeting on Friday we have a few ideas that we
would like to share with you, the first being an Autumn fancy dress
party. This will be held in school on Friday 23rd October 3.30pm til
6 pm. Please see details on posters around school.
We are also asking for donations of any magazines, as current as possible,
that you have finished with (these can be adults or children's) We aim to
leave these in reception where you may purchase one for £1.50, a great
way to catch up on the latest celebrity gossip, gardening or children's
programmes at a much reduced price!
Finally, any jam jars that you may have, please bring them in! We have
many uses for them and donations throughout the year are appreciated.
Many thanks in advance, Claire Gautam
This is the main choice—there is
a vegetarian option available
every day (as per menus
sent at the start of term)
Football Report
Joey, Lewis, George, Jonny, Thomas, Alfie, Dylan, Corey, Neive and Kitty
all played in a Y3/4 football tournament at Sandylands last Friday. The
first match was 5 nil to us, then the 2nd match was 1 nil to them, 3rd
match was 3 nil to us, 4th match was 4 nil to them and then the 5th
match was 3 nil to us. Overall we came 4th . We were really proud of our
efforts. By Joey Driscoll
Can you Help?
World Prematurity Day is observed on the 17th November to raise
awareness of pre term birth and the care of premature babies world-
wide. Approximately 15 million babies are born prematurely every year, 1
in 10 around the world.
I volunteer on the neo natal unit at Bradford Royal Infirmary on behalf of
Bliss (Bliss.org.uk) and every year on World Prematurity Day we give gifts to
everyone currently spending time on the unit. This includes purple knitted
hats, one for each child. If any of our parents, grandparents or other
family members are a dab hand at knitting and would like to help out I
would be most grateful! I will need the hats for the first week in November
ideally (they must be purple!). If you need a pattern, please visit http://
www.fiberfluxblog.com/2011/02/free-pattern.html?m=1. Thank you.
Claire Gautam
Parking – Collection
Be aware that it is VERY busy at drop off and collection times. Please
consider parking at the village hall and walking up to school.
Assemblies
Next week: Thursday 22nd October it is Willow class assembly at 9am.
Friday 23rd October – achievement assembly, pupils are invited to bring
in something to show and speak about that they have achieved outside
school.
Oak and Willow class had been challenged to write a short story about
space on the back of a postcard. Amber Dobson won 2 tickets to go to
Settle Stories to see Tales from Cosmos—a story that was set in 1910
about a man shot down 9 suns so that we only had un in the whole wide
world. It was great.
Garg
rave C
of E
Prim
ary
School
Thurs
day 1
5th
Octo
ber
2015
Gargrave CE (VC) Primary School, Neville
Road, Gargrave, BD23 3RE
Tel: 01756 749433 Fax: 01756 749463
Email: admin@gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk
Website: www.gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk
See overleaf for
Holly Eyles (super reading)
Lola Dobson (excellent behaviour)
Ayaan Ali (knowing space facts—confident)
Samuel Blackwell (fantastic number task homework)
Lars Keyworth (perseverance with his can work)
Daisy Hill (working hard during paired reading)
Emma Hargraves and Megan Webb (for kindness towards other children)
Ollie Metcalfe (not giving up with his tricky work)
Zara Pratt (expressive brainbuilder work)
Every Child Counts: Every Child Contributes Issue 6
Finlay & Oliver Greenway
Skipping For Schools—Wednesday 21st October
We have invited Sports Skipping for Schools to host an all day skipping coaching
session where our children will have the opportunity to learn a range of skipping
skills. Skipping on a regular basis will help improve general levels of fitness and,
along with the different skipping skills and challenges taught during the day,
children will gain new found confidence in their own physical abilities. Parents are
invited to attend the presentation at the end of the day ay 2.50pm. Ropes will
also be available to buy on the day only at a cost of £4.00 each.
White Ribbons
Vacancy—Midday Supervisor
We are looking for a fun person who can work alongside the lunchtime staff to
ensure a safe, happy and active lunchtime. The person will be fully supported by
the other members of staff—5 hrs per week, working everyday 12.00pm – 1.00pm
Term Time Only. Closing date for applications ~ Friday 6th November 2015. The job
is advertised on the NYCC website or you can obtain an application pack from
school.
Vacancy—Kitchen Assistant
We have a vacancy for a general kitchen assistant to cover long term maternity
leave. It is for 2 hours per day (11.30am-1.30pm). To apply or ask any further
questions, please contact Vivienne Sadler on 07779788585.
Parents evening
Thanks to every parent for attending to discuss the learning of your child. Feed-
back from parents included requests for a maths calculations evening and a
meeting about assessment without levels. We shall arrange both for after half
term, dates to follow. Parents of pupils in years 2 and 6 were given copies of the
criteria for a child to be awarded ‘national standard’. There are higher expecta-
tions on the pupils in all areas of the curriculum. We also had out sample test ma-
terials for both these year groups, these are available on-line – just search for sam-
ple national tests. In the spring term we shall give you more details of the tests and
the teacher assessment.
Clubs
Apologies as a few parents thought that the clubs were on this week, but they
weren’t because of parents’ evenings. They are on next week.
Oak Class
We have had a report of head lice, please check your child's hair and treat. Also
could you bring in an old shirt for the children to wear when they are doing art.
APPLE This week in Apple class we have focused on
Phonics and Maths activities. In our Phonics sessions
we have covered c, ck, and e. The children have
read words and phrases and draw pictures. In
Maths we have worked on weight and counting
and comparing different sets of objects. Thank you
for coming to our parent consultation evenings and we hope you found them useful.
OAK This week Oak class have been working really hard on their grammar and have been
coming up with some fantastic adverbs and adjectives to make sentences more
interesting. We have also focused on using some tricky punctuation; using colons, semi-
colons, bullet points and brackets. We really enjoyed our trip to Ilkley Literary Festival to
listen to Steve Cole talk. He gave the class lots of great ideas for their writing. In maths
we have been thinking about multiples and factors and learning how to recognise a
prime number.
WILLOW
We have been working hard this week on our
place value skills and accuracy when working
with money. Some of us have been ‘purchasing’
sports cars at Willow Class garage and working
out how much we can save. We have also been
developing skills in newspaper writing and using
peer marking to check we have all used
our Top Tips effectively.
BEECH We are really enjoying our work on measuring length this week.
Here are Monty and Minny measuring their playdough ‘snakes’
with their bead strings. We have continued to look at non-fiction
books in literacy and have been labelling features of a fire engine
and writing facts about fire engines and fire fighters. We watched
a very exciting video clip of a fire being put out.
ASH Thank you to everyone that came to Ash class assembly. We really enjoyed sharing all of
our work with you. We worked hard to speak clearly and confidently. In Maths we have
been playing games on the computer to practice our rapid recall of number bonds. We
have been looking at recycling in Science and had lots of ideas about what we could
recycle! Please can I remind all parents that we do not bring toys into school (unless it is
for show and tell—see timetable). We have had lots of upset over toys getting lost or
swapped, so please can you ensure that your children do not bring them.
Lisa’s
Kitchen
Monday 2nd November
Cheese & Tomato Pasta
Syrup Sponge & Custard
Tuesday 3rd November
Meatloaf
Raspberry Bun
Wednesday 4th November
Meat & Potato Pie
Chocolate Mandarin
Sponge
Thursday 5th November
Chicken Korma
Toffee Apple Cake &
Custard
Friday 6th November
Battered Fish
Fruit Salad
Monday 19th October Fish Fingers
Jam Roly Poly & Custard
Tuesday 20th October Pasta Bolognaise
Flapjack
Wednesday 21st October
Chicken Pie
Arctic Roll & Peaches
Thursday 22nd October Beef Hot Pot
Biscuit, Cheese & Grapes
Friday 23rd October
Sausage, Potato & Beans
Halloween Biscuits
PTA Update and Forthcoming Party
Sally, Carolyn and myself would like to say a big hello to you all! We are
looking forward to some exciting times ahead with you all in the coming
school year. As always, we welcome any fundraising ideas from you and
volunteers are always welcomed with enthusiasm!
After our first informal meeting on Friday we have a few ideas that we
would like to share with you, the first being an Autumn fancy dress
party. This will be held in school on Friday 23rd October 3.30pm til
6 pm. Please see details on posters around school.
We are also asking for donations of any magazines, as current as possible,
that you have finished with (these can be adults or children's) We aim to
leave these in reception where you may purchase one for £1.50, a great
way to catch up on the latest celebrity gossip, gardening or children's
programmes at a much reduced price!
Finally, any jam jars that you may have, please bring them in! We have
many uses for them and donations throughout the year are appreciated.
Many thanks in advance, Claire Gautam
This is the main choice—there is
a vegetarian option available
every day (as per menus
sent at the start of term)
Football Report
Joey, Lewis, George, Jonny, Thomas, Alfie, Dylan, Corey, Neive and Kitty
all played in a Y3/4 football tournament at Sandylands last Friday. The
first match was 5 nil to us, then the 2nd match was 1 nil to them, 3rd
match was 3 nil to us, 4th match was 4 nil to them and then the 5th
match was 3 nil to us. Overall we came 4th . We were really proud of our
efforts. By Joey Driscoll
Can you Help?
World Prematurity Day is observed on the 17th November to raise
awareness of pre term birth and the care of premature babies world-
wide. Approximately 15 million babies are born prematurely every year, 1
in 10 around the world.
I volunteer on the neo natal unit at Bradford Royal Infirmary on behalf of
Bliss (Bliss.org.uk) and every year on World Prematurity Day we give gifts to
everyone currently spending time on the unit. This includes purple knitted
hats, one for each child. If any of our parents, grandparents or other
family members are a dab hand at knitting and would like to help out I
would be most grateful! I will need the hats for the first week in November
ideally (they must be purple!). If you need a pattern, please visit http://
www.fiberfluxblog.com/2011/02/free-pattern.html?m=1. Thank you.
Claire Gautam
Parking – Collection
Be aware that it is VERY busy at drop off and collection times. Please
consider parking at the village hall and walking up to school.
Assemblies
Next week: Thursday 22nd October it is Willow class assembly at 9am.
Friday 23rd October – achievement assembly, pupils are invited to bring
in something to show and speak about that they have achieved outside
school.
Oak and Willow class had been challenged to write a short story about
space on the back of a postcard. Amber Dobson won 2 tickets to go to
Settle Stories to see Tales from Cosmos—a story that was set in 1910
about a man shot down 9 suns so that we only had un in the whole wide
world. It was great.
Garg
rave C
of E
Prim
ary
School
Thurs
day 1
5th
Octo
ber
2015
Gargrave CE (VC) Primary School, Neville
Road, Gargrave, BD23 3RE
Tel: 01756 749433 Fax: 01756 749463
Email: admin@gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk
Website: www.gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk
See overleaf for
Holly Eyles (super reading)
Lola Dobson (excellent behaviour)
Ayaan Ali (knowing space facts—confident)
Samuel Blackwell (fantastic number task homework)
Lars Keyworth (perseverance with his can work)
Daisy Hill (working hard during paired reading)
Emma Hargraves and Megan Webb (for kindness towards other children)
Ollie Metcalfe (not giving up with his tricky work)
Zara Pratt (expressive brainbuilder work)
Every Child Counts: Every Child Contributes Issue 6
Archie Shackleton
Skipping For Schools—Wednesday 21st October
We have invited Sports Skipping for Schools to host an all day skipping coaching
session where our children will have the opportunity to learn a range of skipping
skills. Skipping on a regular basis will help improve general levels of fitness and,
along with the different skipping skills and challenges taught during the day,
children will gain new found confidence in their own physical abilities. Parents are
invited to attend the presentation at the end of the day ay 2.50pm. Ropes will
also be available to buy on the day only at a cost of £4.00 each.
White Ribbons
Vacancy—Midday Supervisor
We are looking for a fun person who can work alongside the lunchtime staff to
ensure a safe, happy and active lunchtime. The person will be fully supported by
the other members of staff—5 hrs per week, working everyday 12.00pm – 1.00pm
Term Time Only. Closing date for applications ~ Friday 6th November 2015. The job
is advertised on the NYCC website or you can obtain an application pack from
school.
Vacancy—Kitchen Assistant
We have a vacancy for a general kitchen assistant to cover long term maternity
leave. It is for 2 hours per day (11.30am-1.30pm). To apply or ask any further
questions, please contact Vivienne Sadler on 07779788585.
Parents evening
Thanks to every parent for attending to discuss the learning of your child. Feed-
back from parents included requests for a maths calculations evening and a
meeting about assessment without levels. We shall arrange both for after half
term, dates to follow. Parents of pupils in years 2 and 6 were given copies of the
criteria for a child to be awarded ‘national standard’. There are higher expecta-
tions on the pupils in all areas of the curriculum. We also had out sample test ma-
terials for both these year groups, these are available on-line – just search for sam-
ple national tests. In the spring term we shall give you more details of the tests and
the teacher assessment.
Clubs
Apologies as a few parents thought that the clubs were on this week, but they
weren’t because of parents’ evenings. They are on next week.
Oak Class
We have had a report of head lice, please check your child's hair and treat. Also
could you bring in an old shirt for the children to wear when they are doing art.
APPLE This week in Apple class we have focused on
Phonics and Maths activities. In our Phonics sessions
we have covered c, ck, and e. The children have
read words and phrases and draw pictures. In
Maths we have worked on weight and counting
and comparing different sets of objects. Thank you
for coming to our parent consultation evenings and we hope you found them useful.
OAK This week Oak class have been working really hard on their grammar and have been
coming up with some fantastic adverbs and adjectives to make sentences more
interesting. We have also focused on using some tricky punctuation; using colons, semi-
colons, bullet points and brackets. We really enjoyed our trip to Ilkley Literary Festival to
listen to Steve Cole talk. He gave the class lots of great ideas for their writing. In maths
we have been thinking about multiples and factors and learning how to recognise a
prime number.
WILLOW
We have been working hard this week on our
place value skills and accuracy when working
with money. Some of us have been ‘purchasing’
sports cars at Willow Class garage and working
out how much we can save. We have also been
developing skills in newspaper writing and using
peer marking to check we have all used
our Top Tips effectively.
BEECH We are really enjoying our work on measuring length this week.
Here are Monty and Minny measuring their playdough ‘snakes’
with their bead strings. We have continued to look at non-fiction
books in literacy and have been labelling features of a fire engine
and writing facts about fire engines and fire fighters. We watched
a very exciting video clip of a fire being put out.
ASH Thank you to everyone that came to Ash class assembly. We really enjoyed sharing all of
our work with you. We worked hard to speak clearly and confidently. In Maths we have
been playing games on the computer to practice our rapid recall of number bonds. We
have been looking at recycling in Science and had lots of ideas about what we could
recycle! Please can I remind all parents that we do not bring toys into school (unless it is
for show and tell—see timetable). We have had lots of upset over toys getting lost or
swapped, so please can you ensure that your children do not bring them.
Lisa’s
Kitchen
Monday 2nd November
Cheese & Tomato Pasta
Syrup Sponge & Custard
Tuesday 3rd November
Meatloaf
Raspberry Bun
Wednesday 4th November
Meat & Potato Pie
Chocolate Mandarin
Sponge
Thursday 5th November
Chicken Korma
Toffee Apple Cake &
Custard
Friday 6th November
Battered Fish
Fruit Salad
Monday 19th October Fish Fingers
Jam Roly Poly & Custard
Tuesday 20th October Pasta Bolognaise
Flapjack
Wednesday 21st October
Chicken Pie
Arctic Roll & Peaches
Thursday 22nd October Beef Hot Pot
Biscuit, Cheese & Grapes
Friday 23rd October
Sausage, Potato & Beans
Halloween Biscuits
PTA Update and Forthcoming Party
Sally, Carolyn and myself would like to say a big hello to you all! We are
looking forward to some exciting times ahead with you all in the coming
school year. As always, we welcome any fundraising ideas from you and
volunteers are always welcomed with enthusiasm!
After our first informal meeting on Friday we have a few ideas that we
would like to share with you, the first being an Autumn fancy dress
party. This will be held in school on Friday 23rd October 3.30pm til
6 pm. Please see details on posters around school.
We are also asking for donations of any magazines, as current as possible,
that you have finished with (these can be adults or children's) We aim to
leave these in reception where you may purchase one for £1.50, a great
way to catch up on the latest celebrity gossip, gardening or children's
programmes at a much reduced price!
Finally, any jam jars that you may have, please bring them in! We have
many uses for them and donations throughout the year are appreciated.
Many thanks in advance, Claire Gautam
This is the main choice—there is
a vegetarian option available
every day (as per menus
sent at the start of term)
Football Report
Joey, Lewis, George, Jonny, Thomas, Alfie, Dylan, Corey, Neive and Kitty
all played in a Y3/4 football tournament at Sandylands last Friday. The
first match was 5 nil to us, then the 2nd match was 1 nil to them, 3rd
match was 3 nil to us, 4th match was 4 nil to them and then the 5th
match was 3 nil to us. Overall we came 4th . We were really proud of our
efforts. By Joey Driscoll
Can you Help?
World Prematurity Day is observed on the 17th November to raise
awareness of pre term birth and the care of premature babies world-
wide. Approximately 15 million babies are born prematurely every year, 1
in 10 around the world.
I volunteer on the neo natal unit at Bradford Royal Infirmary on behalf of
Bliss (Bliss.org.uk) and every year on World Prematurity Day we give gifts to
everyone currently spending time on the unit. This includes purple knitted
hats, one for each child. If any of our parents, grandparents or other
family members are a dab hand at knitting and would like to help out I
would be most grateful! I will need the hats for the first week in November
ideally (they must be purple!). If you need a pattern, please visit http://
www.fiberfluxblog.com/2011/02/free-pattern.html?m=1. Thank you.
Claire Gautam
Parking – Collection
Be aware that it is VERY busy at drop off and collection times. Please
consider parking at the village hall and walking up to school.
Assemblies
Next week: Thursday 22nd October it is Willow class assembly at 9am.
Friday 23rd October – achievement assembly, pupils are invited to bring
in something to show and speak about that they have achieved outside
school.
Oak and Willow class had been challenged to write a short story about
space on the back of a postcard. Amber Dobson won 2 tickets to go to
Settle Stories to see Tales from Cosmos—a story that was set in 1910
about a man shot down 9 suns so that we only had un in the whole wide
world. It was great.
Garg
rave C
of E
Prim
ary
School
Thurs
day 1
5th
Octo
ber
2015
Gargrave CE (VC) Primary School, Neville
Road, Gargrave, BD23 3RE
Tel: 01756 749433 Fax: 01756 749463
Email: admin@gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk
Website: www.gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk
See overleaf for
Holly Eyles (super reading)
Lola Dobson (excellent behaviour)
Ayaan Ali (knowing space facts—confident)
Samuel Blackwell (fantastic number task homework)
Lars Keyworth (perseverance with his can work)
Daisy Hill (working hard during paired reading)
Emma Hargraves and Megan Webb (for kindness towards other children)
Ollie Metcalfe (not giving up with his tricky work)
Zara Pratt (expressive brainbuilder work)
Every Child Counts: Every Child Contributes Issue 6
Brandon Taylor
Skipping For Schools—Wednesday 21st October
We have invited Sports Skipping for Schools to host an all day skipping coaching
session where our children will have the opportunity to learn a range of skipping
skills. Skipping on a regular basis will help improve general levels of fitness and,
along with the different skipping skills and challenges taught during the day,
children will gain new found confidence in their own physical abilities. Parents are
invited to attend the presentation at the end of the day ay 2.50pm. Ropes will
also be available to buy on the day only at a cost of £4.00 each.
White Ribbons
Vacancy—Midday Supervisor
We are looking for a fun person who can work alongside the lunchtime staff to
ensure a safe, happy and active lunchtime. The person will be fully supported by
the other members of staff—5 hrs per week, working everyday 12.00pm – 1.00pm
Term Time Only. Closing date for applications ~ Friday 6th November 2015. The job
is advertised on the NYCC website or you can obtain an application pack from
school.
Vacancy—Kitchen Assistant
We have a vacancy for a general kitchen assistant to cover long term maternity
leave. It is for 2 hours per day (11.30am-1.30pm). To apply or ask any further
questions, please contact Vivienne Sadler on 07779788585.
Parents evening
Thanks to every parent for attending to discuss the learning of your child. Feed-
back from parents included requests for a maths calculations evening and a
meeting about assessment without levels. We shall arrange both for after half
term, dates to follow. Parents of pupils in years 2 and 6 were given copies of the
criteria for a child to be awarded ‘national standard’. There are higher expecta-
tions on the pupils in all areas of the curriculum. We also had out sample test ma-
terials for both these year groups, these are available on-line – just search for sam-
ple national tests. In the spring term we shall give you more details of the tests and
the teacher assessment.
Clubs
Apologies as a few parents thought that the clubs were on this week, but they
weren’t because of parents’ evenings. They are on next week.
Oak Class
We have had a report of head lice, please check your child's hair and treat. Also
could you bring in an old shirt for the children to wear when they are doing art.
APPLE This week in Apple class we have focused on
Phonics and Maths activities. In our Phonics sessions
we have covered c, ck, and e. The children have
read words and phrases and draw pictures. In
Maths we have worked on weight and counting
and comparing different sets of objects. Thank you
for coming to our parent consultation evenings and we hope you found them useful.
OAK This week Oak class have been working really hard on their grammar and have been
coming up with some fantastic adverbs and adjectives to make sentences more
interesting. We have also focused on using some tricky punctuation; using colons, semi-
colons, bullet points and brackets. We really enjoyed our trip to Ilkley Literary Festival to
listen to Steve Cole talk. He gave the class lots of great ideas for their writing. In maths
we have been thinking about multiples and factors and learning how to recognise a
prime number.
WILLOW
We have been working hard this week on our
place value skills and accuracy when working
with money. Some of us have been ‘purchasing’
sports cars at Willow Class garage and working
out how much we can save. We have also been
developing skills in newspaper writing and using
peer marking to check we have all used
our Top Tips effectively.
BEECH We are really enjoying our work on measuring length this week.
Here are Monty and Minny measuring their playdough ‘snakes’
with their bead strings. We have continued to look at non-fiction
books in literacy and have been labelling features of a fire engine
and writing facts about fire engines and fire fighters. We watched
a very exciting video clip of a fire being put out.
ASH Thank you to everyone that came to Ash class assembly. We really enjoyed sharing all of
our work with you. We worked hard to speak clearly and confidently. In Maths we have
been playing games on the computer to practice our rapid recall of number bonds. We
have been looking at recycling in Science and had lots of ideas about what we could
recycle! Please can I remind all parents that we do not bring toys into school (unless it is
for show and tell—see timetable). We have had lots of upset over toys getting lost or
swapped, so please can you ensure that your children do not bring them.
Lisa’s
Kitchen
Monday 2nd November
Cheese & Tomato Pasta
Syrup Sponge & Custard
Tuesday 3rd November
Meatloaf
Raspberry Bun
Wednesday 4th November
Meat & Potato Pie
Chocolate Mandarin
Sponge
Thursday 5th November
Chicken Korma
Toffee Apple Cake &
Custard
Friday 6th November
Battered Fish
Fruit Salad
Monday 19th October Fish Fingers
Jam Roly Poly & Custard
Tuesday 20th October Pasta Bolognaise
Flapjack
Wednesday 21st October
Chicken Pie
Arctic Roll & Peaches
Thursday 22nd October Beef Hot Pot
Biscuit, Cheese & Grapes
Friday 23rd October
Sausage, Potato & Beans
Halloween Biscuits
PTA Update and Forthcoming Party
Sally, Carolyn and myself would like to say a big hello to you all! We are
looking forward to some exciting times ahead with you all in the coming
school year. As always, we welcome any fundraising ideas from you and
volunteers are always welcomed with enthusiasm!
After our first informal meeting on Friday we have a few ideas that we
would like to share with you, the first being an Autumn fancy dress
party. This will be held in school on Friday 23rd October 3.30pm til
6 pm. Please see details on posters around school.
We are also asking for donations of any magazines, as current as possible,
that you have finished with (these can be adults or children's) We aim to
leave these in reception where you may purchase one for £1.50, a great
way to catch up on the latest celebrity gossip, gardening or children's
programmes at a much reduced price!
Finally, any jam jars that you may have, please bring them in! We have
many uses for them and donations throughout the year are appreciated.
Many thanks in advance, Claire Gautam
This is the main choice—there is
a vegetarian option available
every day (as per menus
sent at the start of term)
Football Report
Joey, Lewis, George, Jonny, Thomas, Alfie, Dylan, Corey, Neive and Kitty
all played in a Y3/4 football tournament at Sandylands last Friday. The
first match was 5 nil to us, then the 2nd match was 1 nil to them, 3rd
match was 3 nil to us, 4th match was 4 nil to them and then the 5th
match was 3 nil to us. Overall we came 4th . We were really proud of our
efforts. By Joey Driscoll
Can you Help?
World Prematurity Day is observed on the 17th November to raise
awareness of pre term birth and the care of premature babies world-
wide. Approximately 15 million babies are born prematurely every year, 1
in 10 around the world.
I volunteer on the neo natal unit at Bradford Royal Infirmary on behalf of
Bliss (Bliss.org.uk) and every year on World Prematurity Day we give gifts to
everyone currently spending time on the unit. This includes purple knitted
hats, one for each child. If any of our parents, grandparents or other
family members are a dab hand at knitting and would like to help out I
would be most grateful! I will need the hats for the first week in November
ideally (they must be purple!). If you need a pattern, please visit http://
www.fiberfluxblog.com/2011/02/free-pattern.html?m=1. Thank you.
Claire Gautam
Parking – Collection
Be aware that it is VERY busy at drop off and collection times. Please
consider parking at the village hall and walking up to school.
Assemblies
Next week: Thursday 22nd October it is Willow class assembly at 9am.
Friday 23rd October – achievement assembly, pupils are invited to bring
in something to show and speak about that they have achieved outside
school.
Oak and Willow class had been challenged to write a short story about
space on the back of a postcard. Amber Dobson won 2 tickets to go to
Settle Stories to see Tales from Cosmos—a story that was set in 1910
about a man shot down 9 suns so that we only had un in the whole wide
world. It was great.
Garg
rave C
of E
Prim
ary
School
Thurs
day 1
5th
Octo
ber
2015
Gargrave CE (VC) Primary School, Neville
Road, Gargrave, BD23 3RE
Tel: 01756 749433 Fax: 01756 749463
Email: admin@gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk
Website: www.gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk
See overleaf for
Holly Eyles (super reading)
Lola Dobson (excellent behaviour)
Ayaan Ali (knowing space facts—confident)
Samuel Blackwell (fantastic number task homework)
Lars Keyworth (perseverance with his can work)
Daisy Hill (working hard during paired reading)
Emma Hargraves and Megan Webb (for kindness towards other children)
Ollie Metcalfe (not giving up with his tricky work)
Zara Pratt (expressive brainbuilder work)
Every Child Counts: Every Child Contributes Issue 6
Madeline & Freddie Moorhouse-
Skipping For Schools—Wednesday 21st October
We have invited Sports Skipping for Schools to host an all day skipping coaching
session where our children will have the opportunity to learn a range of skipping
skills. Skipping on a regular basis will help improve general levels of fitness and,
along with the different skipping skills and challenges taught during the day,
children will gain new found confidence in their own physical abilities. Parents are
invited to attend the presentation at the end of the day ay 2.50pm. Ropes will
also be available to buy on the day only at a cost of £4.00 each.
White Ribbons
Vacancy—Midday Supervisor
We are looking for a fun person who can work alongside the lunchtime staff to
ensure a safe, happy and active lunchtime. The person will be fully supported by
the other members of staff—5 hrs per week, working everyday 12.00pm – 1.00pm
Term Time Only. Closing date for applications ~ Friday 6th November 2015. The job
is advertised on the NYCC website or you can obtain an application pack from
school.
Vacancy—Kitchen Assistant
We have a vacancy for a general kitchen assistant to cover long term maternity
leave. It is for 2 hours per day (11.30am-1.30pm). To apply or ask any further
questions, please contact Vivienne Sadler on 07779788585.
Parents evening
Thanks to every parent for attending to discuss the learning of your child. Feed-
back from parents included requests for a maths calculations evening and a
meeting about assessment without levels. We shall arrange both for after half
term, dates to follow. Parents of pupils in years 2 and 6 were given copies of the
criteria for a child to be awarded ‘national standard’. There are higher expecta-
tions on the pupils in all areas of the curriculum. We also had out sample test ma-
terials for both these year groups, these are available on-line – just search for sam-
ple national tests. In the spring term we shall give you more details of the tests and
the teacher assessment.
Clubs
Apologies as a few parents thought that the clubs were on this week, but they
weren’t because of parents’ evenings. They are on next week.
Oak Class
We have had a report of head lice, please check your child's hair and treat. Also
could you bring in an old shirt for the children to wear when they are doing art.
APPLE This week in Apple class we have focused on
Phonics and Maths activities. In our Phonics sessions
we have covered c, ck, and e. The children have
read words and phrases and draw pictures. In
Maths we have worked on weight and counting
and comparing different sets of objects. Thank you
for coming to our parent consultation evenings and we hope you found them useful.
OAK This week Oak class have been working really hard on their grammar and have been
coming up with some fantastic adverbs and adjectives to make sentences more
interesting. We have also focused on using some tricky punctuation; using colons, semi-
colons, bullet points and brackets. We really enjoyed our trip to Ilkley Literary Festival to
listen to Steve Cole talk. He gave the class lots of great ideas for their writing. In maths
we have been thinking about multiples and factors and learning how to recognise a
prime number.
WILLOW
We have been working hard this week on our
place value skills and accuracy when working
with money. Some of us have been ‘purchasing’
sports cars at Willow Class garage and working
out how much we can save. We have also been
developing skills in newspaper writing and using
peer marking to check we have all used
our Top Tips effectively.
BEECH We are really enjoying our work on measuring length this week.
Here are Monty and Minny measuring their playdough ‘snakes’
with their bead strings. We have continued to look at non-fiction
books in literacy and have been labelling features of a fire engine
and writing facts about fire engines and fire fighters. We watched
a very exciting video clip of a fire being put out.
ASH Thank you to everyone that came to Ash class assembly. We really enjoyed sharing all of
our work with you. We worked hard to speak clearly and confidently. In Maths we have
been playing games on the computer to practice our rapid recall of number bonds. We
have been looking at recycling in Science and had lots of ideas about what we could
recycle! Please can I remind all parents that we do not bring toys into school (unless it is
for show and tell—see timetable). We have had lots of upset over toys getting lost or
swapped, so please can you ensure that your children do not bring them.
Lisa’s
Kitchen
Monday 2nd November
Cheese & Tomato Pasta
Syrup Sponge & Custard
Tuesday 3rd November
Meatloaf
Raspberry Bun
Wednesday 4th November
Meat & Potato Pie
Chocolate Mandarin
Sponge
Thursday 5th November
Chicken Korma
Toffee Apple Cake &
Custard
Friday 6th November
Battered Fish
Fruit Salad
Monday 19th October Fish Fingers
Jam Roly Poly & Custard
Tuesday 20th October Pasta Bolognaise
Flapjack
Wednesday 21st October
Chicken Pie
Arctic Roll & Peaches
Thursday 22nd October Beef Hot Pot
Biscuit, Cheese & Grapes
Friday 23rd October
Sausage, Potato & Beans
Halloween Biscuits
PTA Update and Forthcoming Party
Sally, Carolyn and myself would like to say a big hello to you all! We are
looking forward to some exciting times ahead with you all in the coming
school year. As always, we welcome any fundraising ideas from you and
volunteers are always welcomed with enthusiasm!
After our first informal meeting on Friday we have a few ideas that we
would like to share with you, the first being an Autumn fancy dress
party. This will be held in school on Friday 23rd October 3.30pm til
6 pm. Please see details on posters around school.
We are also asking for donations of any magazines, as current as possible,
that you have finished with (these can be adults or children's) We aim to
leave these in reception where you may purchase one for £1.50, a great
way to catch up on the latest celebrity gossip, gardening or children's
programmes at a much reduced price!
Finally, any jam jars that you may have, please bring them in! We have
many uses for them and donations throughout the year are appreciated.
Many thanks in advance, Claire Gautam
This is the main choice—there is
a vegetarian option available
every day (as per menus
sent at the start of term)
Football Report
Joey, Lewis, George, Jonny, Thomas, Alfie, Dylan, Corey, Neive and Kitty
all played in a Y3/4 football tournament at Sandylands last Friday. The
first match was 5 nil to us, then the 2nd match was 1 nil to them, 3rd
match was 3 nil to us, 4th match was 4 nil to them and then the 5th
match was 3 nil to us. Overall we came 4th . We were really proud of our
efforts. By Joey Driscoll
Can you Help?
World Prematurity Day is observed on the 17th November to raise
awareness of pre term birth and the care of premature babies world-
wide. Approximately 15 million babies are born prematurely every year, 1
in 10 around the world.
I volunteer on the neo natal unit at Bradford Royal Infirmary on behalf of
Bliss (Bliss.org.uk) and every year on World Prematurity Day we give gifts to
everyone currently spending time on the unit. This includes purple knitted
hats, one for each child. If any of our parents, grandparents or other
family members are a dab hand at knitting and would like to help out I
would be most grateful! I will need the hats for the first week in November
ideally (they must be purple!). If you need a pattern, please visit http://
www.fiberfluxblog.com/2011/02/free-pattern.html?m=1. Thank you.
Claire Gautam
Parking – Collection
Be aware that it is VERY busy at drop off and collection times. Please
consider parking at the village hall and walking up to school.
Assemblies
Next week: Thursday 22nd October it is Willow class assembly at 9am.
Friday 23rd October – achievement assembly, pupils are invited to bring
in something to show and speak about that they have achieved outside
school.
Oak and Willow class had been challenged to write a short story about
space on the back of a postcard. Amber Dobson won 2 tickets to go to
Settle Stories to see Tales from Cosmos—a story that was set in 1910
about a man shot down 9 suns so that we only had un in the whole wide
world. It was great.
Garg
rave C
of E
Prim
ary
School
Thurs
day 1
5th
Octo
ber
2015
Gargrave CE (VC) Primary School, Neville
Road, Gargrave, BD23 3RE
Tel: 01756 749433 Fax: 01756 749463
Email: admin@gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk
Website: www.gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk
See overleaf for
Holly Eyles (super reading)
Lola Dobson (excellent behaviour)
Ayaan Ali (knowing space facts—confident)
Samuel Blackwell (fantastic number task homework)
Lars Keyworth (perseverance with his can work)
Daisy Hill (working hard during paired reading)
Emma Hargraves and Megan Webb (for kindness towards other children)
Ollie Metcalfe (not giving up with his tricky work)
Zara Pratt (expressive brainbuilder work)
Every Child Counts: Every Child Contributes Issue 6
William Jose
Skipping For Schools—Wednesday 21st October
We have invited Sports Skipping for Schools to host an all day skipping coaching
session where our children will have the opportunity to learn a range of skipping
skills. Skipping on a regular basis will help improve general levels of fitness and,
along with the different skipping skills and challenges taught during the day,
children will gain new found confidence in their own physical abilities. Parents are
invited to attend the presentation at the end of the day ay 2.50pm. Ropes will
also be available to buy on the day only at a cost of £4.00 each.
White Ribbons
Vacancy—Midday Supervisor
We are looking for a fun person who can work alongside the lunchtime staff to
ensure a safe, happy and active lunchtime. The person will be fully supported by
the other members of staff—5 hrs per week, working everyday 12.00pm – 1.00pm
Term Time Only. Closing date for applications ~ Friday 6th November 2015. The job
is advertised on the NYCC website or you can obtain an application pack from
school.
Vacancy—Kitchen Assistant
We have a vacancy for a general kitchen assistant to cover long term maternity
leave. It is for 2 hours per day (11.30am-1.30pm). To apply or ask any further
questions, please contact Vivienne Sadler on 07779788585.
Parents evening
Thanks to every parent for attending to discuss the learning of your child. Feed-
back from parents included requests for a maths calculations evening and a
meeting about assessment without levels. We shall arrange both for after half
term, dates to follow. Parents of pupils in years 2 and 6 were given copies of the
criteria for a child to be awarded ‘national standard’. There are higher expecta-
tions on the pupils in all areas of the curriculum. We also had out sample test ma-
terials for both these year groups, these are available on-line – just search for sam-
ple national tests. In the spring term we shall give you more details of the tests and
the teacher assessment.
Clubs
Apologies as a few parents thought that the clubs were on this week, but they
weren’t because of parents’ evenings. They are on next week.
Oak Class
We have had a report of head lice, please check your child's hair and treat. Also
could you bring in an old shirt for the children to wear when they are doing art.
APPLE This week in Apple class we have focused on
Phonics and Maths activities. In our Phonics sessions
we have covered c, ck, and e. The children have
read words and phrases and draw pictures. In
Maths we have worked on weight and counting
and comparing different sets of objects. Thank you
for coming to our parent consultation evenings and we hope you found them useful.
OAK This week Oak class have been working really hard on their grammar and have been
coming up with some fantastic adverbs and adjectives to make sentences more
interesting. We have also focused on using some tricky punctuation; using colons, semi-
colons, bullet points and brackets. We really enjoyed our trip to Ilkley Literary Festival to
listen to Steve Cole talk. He gave the class lots of great ideas for their writing. In maths
we have been thinking about multiples and factors and learning how to recognise a
prime number.
WILLOW
We have been working hard this week on our
place value skills and accuracy when working
with money. Some of us have been ‘purchasing’
sports cars at Willow Class garage and working
out how much we can save. We have also been
developing skills in newspaper writing and using
peer marking to check we have all used
our Top Tips effectively.
BEECH We are really enjoying our work on measuring length this week.
Here are Monty and Minny measuring their playdough ‘snakes’
with their bead strings. We have continued to look at non-fiction
books in literacy and have been labelling features of a fire engine
and writing facts about fire engines and fire fighters. We watched
a very exciting video clip of a fire being put out.
ASH Thank you to everyone that came to Ash class assembly. We really enjoyed sharing all of
our work with you. We worked hard to speak clearly and confidently. In Maths we have
been playing games on the computer to practice our rapid recall of number bonds. We
have been looking at recycling in Science and had lots of ideas about what we could
recycle! Please can I remind all parents that we do not bring toys into school (unless it is
for show and tell—see timetable). We have had lots of upset over toys getting lost or
swapped, so please can you ensure that your children do not bring them.
Lisa’s
Kitchen
Monday 2nd November
Cheese & Tomato Pasta
Syrup Sponge & Custard
Tuesday 3rd November
Meatloaf
Raspberry Bun
Wednesday 4th November
Meat & Potato Pie
Chocolate Mandarin
Sponge
Thursday 5th November
Chicken Korma
Toffee Apple Cake &
Custard
Friday 6th November
Battered Fish
Fruit Salad
Monday 19th October Fish Fingers
Jam Roly Poly & Custard
Tuesday 20th October Pasta Bolognaise
Flapjack
Wednesday 21st October
Chicken Pie
Arctic Roll & Peaches
Thursday 22nd October Beef Hot Pot
Biscuit, Cheese & Grapes
Friday 23rd October
Sausage, Potato & Beans
Halloween Biscuits
PTA Update and Forthcoming Party
Sally, Carolyn and myself would like to say a big hello to you all! We are
looking forward to some exciting times ahead with you all in the coming
school year. As always, we welcome any fundraising ideas from you and
volunteers are always welcomed with enthusiasm!
After our first informal meeting on Friday we have a few ideas that we
would like to share with you, the first being an Autumn fancy dress
party. This will be held in school on Friday 23rd October 3.30pm til
6 pm. Please see details on posters around school.
We are also asking for donations of any magazines, as current as possible,
that you have finished with (these can be adults or children's) We aim to
leave these in reception where you may purchase one for £1.50, a great
way to catch up on the latest celebrity gossip, gardening or children's
programmes at a much reduced price!
Finally, any jam jars that you may have, please bring them in! We have
many uses for them and donations throughout the year are appreciated.
Many thanks in advance, Claire Gautam
This is the main choice—there is
a vegetarian option available
every day (as per menus
sent at the start of term)
Football Report
Joey, Lewis, George, Jonny, Thomas, Alfie, Dylan, Corey, Neive and Kitty
all played in a Y3/4 football tournament at Sandylands last Friday. The
first match was 5 nil to us, then the 2nd match was 1 nil to them, 3rd
match was 3 nil to us, 4th match was 4 nil to them and then the 5th
match was 3 nil to us. Overall we came 4th . We were really proud of our
efforts. By Joey Driscoll
Can you Help?
World Prematurity Day is observed on the 17th November to raise
awareness of pre term birth and the care of premature babies world-
wide. Approximately 15 million babies are born prematurely every year, 1
in 10 around the world.
I volunteer on the neo natal unit at Bradford Royal Infirmary on behalf of
Bliss (Bliss.org.uk) and every year on World Prematurity Day we give gifts to
everyone currently spending time on the unit. This includes purple knitted
hats, one for each child. If any of our parents, grandparents or other
family members are a dab hand at knitting and would like to help out I
would be most grateful! I will need the hats for the first week in November
ideally (they must be purple!). If you need a pattern, please visit http://
www.fiberfluxblog.com/2011/02/free-pattern.html?m=1. Thank you.
Claire Gautam
Parking – Collection
Be aware that it is VERY busy at drop off and collection times. Please
consider parking at the village hall and walking up to school.
Assemblies
Next week: Thursday 22nd October it is Willow class assembly at 9am.
Friday 23rd October – achievement assembly, pupils are invited to bring
in something to show and speak about that they have achieved outside
school.
Oak and Willow class had been challenged to write a short story about
space on the back of a postcard. Amber Dobson won 2 tickets to go to
Settle Stories to see Tales from Cosmos—a story that was set in 1910
about a man shot down 9 suns so that we only had un in the whole wide
world. It was great.
Garg
rave C
of E
Prim
ary
School
Thurs
day 1
5th
Octo
ber
2015
Gargrave CE (VC) Primary School, Neville
Road, Gargrave, BD23 3RE
Tel: 01756 749433 Fax: 01756 749463
Email: admin@gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk
Website: www.gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk
See overleaf for
Holly Eyles (super reading)
Lola Dobson (excellent behaviour)
Ayaan Ali (knowing space facts—confident)
Samuel Blackwell (fantastic number task homework)
Lars Keyworth (perseverance with his can work)
Daisy Hill (working hard during paired reading)
Emma Hargraves and Megan Webb (for kindness towards other children)
Ollie Metcalfe (not giving up with his tricky work)
Zara Pratt (expressive brainbuilder work)
Every Child Counts: Every Child Contributes Issue 6
Maisy Whitworth
Skipping For Schools—Wednesday 21st October
We have invited Sports Skipping for Schools to host an all day skipping coaching
session where our children will have the opportunity to learn a range of skipping
skills. Skipping on a regular basis will help improve general levels of fitness and,
along with the different skipping skills and challenges taught during the day,
children will gain new found confidence in their own physical abilities. Parents are
invited to attend the presentation at the end of the day ay 2.50pm. Ropes will
also be available to buy on the day only at a cost of £4.00 each.
White Ribbons
Vacancy—Midday Supervisor
We are looking for a fun person who can work alongside the lunchtime staff to
ensure a safe, happy and active lunchtime. The person will be fully supported by
the other members of staff—5 hrs per week, working everyday 12.00pm – 1.00pm
Term Time Only. Closing date for applications ~ Friday 6th November 2015. The job
is advertised on the NYCC website or you can obtain an application pack from
school.
Vacancy—Kitchen Assistant
We have a vacancy for a general kitchen assistant to cover long term maternity
leave. It is for 2 hours per day (11.30am-1.30pm). To apply or ask any further
questions, please contact Vivienne Sadler on 07779788585.
Parents evening
Thanks to every parent for attending to discuss the learning of your child. Feed-
back from parents included requests for a maths calculations evening and a
meeting about assessment without levels. We shall arrange both for after half
term, dates to follow. Parents of pupils in years 2 and 6 were given copies of the
criteria for a child to be awarded ‘national standard’. There are higher expecta-
tions on the pupils in all areas of the curriculum. We also had out sample test ma-
terials for both these year groups, these are available on-line – just search for sam-
ple national tests. In the spring term we shall give you more details of the tests and
the teacher assessment.
Clubs
Apologies as a few parents thought that the clubs were on this week, but they
weren’t because of parents’ evenings. They are on next week.
Oak Class
We have had a report of head lice, please check your child's hair and treat. Also
could you bring in an old shirt for the children to wear when they are doing art.
APPLE This week in Apple class we have focused on
Phonics and Maths activities. In our Phonics sessions
we have covered c, ck, and e. The children have
read words and phrases and draw pictures. In
Maths we have worked on weight and counting
and comparing different sets of objects. Thank you
for coming to our parent consultation evenings and we hope you found them useful.
OAK This week Oak class have been working really hard on their grammar and have been
coming up with some fantastic adverbs and adjectives to make sentences more
interesting. We have also focused on using some tricky punctuation; using colons, semi-
colons, bullet points and brackets. We really enjoyed our trip to Ilkley Literary Festival to
listen to Steve Cole talk. He gave the class lots of great ideas for their writing. In maths
we have been thinking about multiples and factors and learning how to recognise a
prime number.
WILLOW
We have been working hard this week on our
place value skills and accuracy when working
with money. Some of us have been ‘purchasing’
sports cars at Willow Class garage and working
out how much we can save. We have also been
developing skills in newspaper writing and using
peer marking to check we have all used
our Top Tips effectively.
BEECH We are really enjoying our work on measuring length this week.
Here are Monty and Minny measuring their playdough ‘snakes’
with their bead strings. We have continued to look at non-fiction
books in literacy and have been labelling features of a fire engine
and writing facts about fire engines and fire fighters. We watched
a very exciting video clip of a fire being put out.
ASH Thank you to everyone that came to Ash class assembly. We really enjoyed sharing all of
our work with you. We worked hard to speak clearly and confidently. In Maths we have
been playing games on the computer to practice our rapid recall of number bonds. We
have been looking at recycling in Science and had lots of ideas about what we could
recycle! Please can I remind all parents that we do not bring toys into school (unless it is
for show and tell—see timetable). We have had lots of upset over toys getting lost or
swapped, so please can you ensure that your children do not bring them.
Lisa’s
Kitchen
Monday 2nd November
Cheese & Tomato Pasta
Syrup Sponge & Custard
Tuesday 3rd November
Meatloaf
Raspberry Bun
Wednesday 4th November
Meat & Potato Pie
Chocolate Mandarin
Sponge
Thursday 5th November
Chicken Korma
Toffee Apple Cake &
Custard
Friday 6th November
Battered Fish
Fruit Salad
Monday 19th October Fish Fingers
Jam Roly Poly & Custard
Tuesday 20th October Pasta Bolognaise
Flapjack
Wednesday 21st October
Chicken Pie
Arctic Roll & Peaches
Thursday 22nd October Beef Hot Pot
Biscuit, Cheese & Grapes
Friday 23rd October
Sausage, Potato & Beans
Halloween Biscuits
PTA Update and Forthcoming Party
Sally, Carolyn and myself would like to say a big hello to you all! We are
looking forward to some exciting times ahead with you all in the coming
school year. As always, we welcome any fundraising ideas from you and
volunteers are always welcomed with enthusiasm!
After our first informal meeting on Friday we have a few ideas that we
would like to share with you, the first being an Autumn fancy dress
party. This will be held in school on Friday 23rd October 3.30pm til
6 pm. Please see details on posters around school.
We are also asking for donations of any magazines, as current as possible,
that you have finished with (these can be adults or children's) We aim to
leave these in reception where you may purchase one for £1.50, a great
way to catch up on the latest celebrity gossip, gardening or children's
programmes at a much reduced price!
Finally, any jam jars that you may have, please bring them in! We have
many uses for them and donations throughout the year are appreciated.
Many thanks in advance, Claire Gautam
This is the main choice—there is
a vegetarian option available
every day (as per menus
sent at the start of term)
Football Report
Joey, Lewis, George, Jonny, Thomas, Alfie, Dylan, Corey, Neive and Kitty
all played in a Y3/4 football tournament at Sandylands last Friday. The
first match was 5 nil to us, then the 2nd match was 1 nil to them, 3rd
match was 3 nil to us, 4th match was 4 nil to them and then the 5th
match was 3 nil to us. Overall we came 4th . We were really proud of our
efforts. By Joey Driscoll
Can you Help?
World Prematurity Day is observed on the 17th November to raise
awareness of pre term birth and the care of premature babies world-
wide. Approximately 15 million babies are born prematurely every year, 1
in 10 around the world.
I volunteer on the neo natal unit at Bradford Royal Infirmary on behalf of
Bliss (Bliss.org.uk) and every year on World Prematurity Day we give gifts to
everyone currently spending time on the unit. This includes purple knitted
hats, one for each child. If any of our parents, grandparents or other
family members are a dab hand at knitting and would like to help out I
would be most grateful! I will need the hats for the first week in November
ideally (they must be purple!). If you need a pattern, please visit http://
www.fiberfluxblog.com/2011/02/free-pattern.html?m=1. Thank you.
Claire Gautam
Parking – Collection
Be aware that it is VERY busy at drop off and collection times. Please
consider parking at the village hall and walking up to school.
Assemblies
Next week: Thursday 22nd October it is Willow class assembly at 9am.
Friday 23rd October – achievement assembly, pupils are invited to bring
in something to show and speak about that they have achieved outside
school.
Oak and Willow class had been challenged to write a short story about
space on the back of a postcard. Amber Dobson won 2 tickets to go to
Settle Stories to see Tales from Cosmos—a story that was set in 1910
about a man shot down 9 suns so that we only had un in the whole wide
world. It was great.
Garg
rave C
of E
Prim
ary
School
Thurs
day 1
5th
Octo
ber
2015
Gargrave CE (VC) Primary School, Neville
Road, Gargrave, BD23 3RE
Tel: 01756 749433 Fax: 01756 749463
Email: admin@gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk
Website: www.gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk
See overleaf for
Holly Eyles (super reading)
Lola Dobson (excellent behaviour)
Ayaan Ali (knowing space facts—confident)
Samuel Blackwell (fantastic number task homework)
Lars Keyworth (perseverance with his can work)
Daisy Hill (working hard during paired reading)
Emma Hargraves and Megan Webb (for kindness towards other children)
Ollie Metcalfe (not giving up with his tricky work)
Zara Pratt (expressive brainbuilder work)
Every Child Counts: Every Child Contributes Issue 6
Noticeboard
Skipping For Schools—Wednesday 21st October
We have invited Sports Skipping for Schools to host an all day skipping coaching
session where our children will have the opportunity to learn a range of skipping
skills. Skipping on a regular basis will help improve general levels of fitness and,
along with the different skipping skills and challenges taught during the day,
children will gain new found confidence in their own physical abilities. Parents are
invited to attend the presentation at the end of the day ay 2.50pm. Ropes will
also be available to buy on the day only at a cost of £4.00 each.
White Ribbons
Vacancy—Midday Supervisor
We are looking for a fun person who can work alongside the lunchtime staff to
ensure a safe, happy and active lunchtime. The person will be fully supported by
the other members of staff—5 hrs per week, working everyday 12.00pm – 1.00pm
Term Time Only. Closing date for applications ~ Friday 6th November 2015. The job
is advertised on the NYCC website or you can obtain an application pack from
school.
Vacancy—Kitchen Assistant
We have a vacancy for a general kitchen assistant to cover long term maternity
leave. It is for 2 hours per day (11.30am-1.30pm). To apply or ask any further
questions, please contact Vivienne Sadler on 07779788585.
Parents evening
Thanks to every parent for attending to discuss the learning of your child. Feed-
back from parents included requests for a maths calculations evening and a
meeting about assessment without levels. We shall arrange both for after half
term, dates to follow. Parents of pupils in years 2 and 6 were given copies of the
criteria for a child to be awarded ‘national standard’. There are higher expecta-
tions on the pupils in all areas of the curriculum. We also had out sample test ma-
terials for both these year groups, these are available on-line – just search for sam-
ple national tests. In the spring term we shall give you more details of the tests and
the teacher assessment.
Clubs
Apologies as a few parents thought that the clubs were on this week, but they
weren’t because of parents’ evenings. They are on next week.
Oak Class
We have had a report of head lice, please check your child's hair and treat. Also
could you bring in an old shirt for the children to wear when they are doing art.
APPLE This week in Apple class we have focused on
Phonics and Maths activities. In our Phonics sessions
we have covered c, ck, and e. The children have
read words and phrases and draw pictures. In
Maths we have worked on weight and counting
and comparing different sets of objects. Thank you
for coming to our parent consultation evenings and we hope you found them useful.
OAK This week Oak class have been working really hard on their grammar and have been
coming up with some fantastic adverbs and adjectives to make sentences more
interesting. We have also focused on using some tricky punctuation; using colons, semi-
colons, bullet points and brackets. We really enjoyed our trip to Ilkley Literary Festival to
listen to Steve Cole talk. He gave the class lots of great ideas for their writing. In maths
we have been thinking about multiples and factors and learning how to recognise a
prime number.
WILLOW
We have been working hard this week on our
place value skills and accuracy when working
with money. Some of us have been ‘purchasing’
sports cars at Willow Class garage and working
out how much we can save. We have also been
developing skills in newspaper writing and using
peer marking to check we have all used
our Top Tips effectively.
BEECH We are really enjoying our work on measuring length this week.
Here are Monty and Minny measuring their playdough ‘snakes’
with their bead strings. We have continued to look at non-fiction
books in literacy and have been labelling features of a fire engine
and writing facts about fire engines and fire fighters. We watched
a very exciting video clip of a fire being put out.
ASH Thank you to everyone that came to Ash class assembly. We really enjoyed sharing all of
our work with you. We worked hard to speak clearly and confidently. In Maths we have
been playing games on the computer to practice our rapid recall of number bonds. We
have been looking at recycling in Science and had lots of ideas about what we could
recycle! Please can I remind all parents that we do not bring toys into school (unless it is
for show and tell—see timetable). We have had lots of upset over toys getting lost or
swapped, so please can you ensure that your children do not bring them.
Lisa’s
Kitchen
Monday 2nd November
Cheese & Tomato Pasta
Syrup Sponge & Custard
Tuesday 3rd November
Meatloaf
Raspberry Bun
Wednesday 4th November
Meat & Potato Pie
Chocolate Mandarin
Sponge
Thursday 5th November
Chicken Korma
Toffee Apple Cake &
Custard
Friday 6th November
Battered Fish
Fruit Salad
Monday 19th October Fish Fingers
Jam Roly Poly & Custard
Tuesday 20th October Pasta Bolognaise
Flapjack
Wednesday 21st October
Chicken Pie
Arctic Roll & Peaches
Thursday 22nd October Beef Hot Pot
Biscuit, Cheese & Grapes
Friday 23rd October
Sausage, Potato & Beans
Halloween Biscuits
PTA Update and Forthcoming Party
Sally, Carolyn and myself would like to say a big hello to you all! We are
looking forward to some exciting times ahead with you all in the coming
school year. As always, we welcome any fundraising ideas from you and
volunteers are always welcomed with enthusiasm!
After our first informal meeting on Friday we have a few ideas that we
would like to share with you, the first being an Autumn fancy dress
party. This will be held in school on Friday 23rd October 3.30pm til
6 pm. Please see details on posters around school.
We are also asking for donations of any magazines, as current as possible,
that you have finished with (these can be adults or children's) We aim to
leave these in reception where you may purchase one for £1.50, a great
way to catch up on the latest celebrity gossip, gardening or children's
programmes at a much reduced price!
Finally, any jam jars that you may have, please bring them in! We have
many uses for them and donations throughout the year are appreciated.
Many thanks in advance, Claire Gautam
This is the main choice—there is
a vegetarian option available
every day (as per menus
sent at the start of term)
Football Report
Joey, Lewis, George, Jonny, Thomas, Alfie, Dylan, Corey, Neive and Kitty
all played in a Y3/4 football tournament at Sandylands last Friday. The
first match was 5 nil to us, then the 2nd match was 1 nil to them, 3rd
match was 3 nil to us, 4th match was 4 nil to them and then the 5th
match was 3 nil to us. Overall we came 4th . We were really proud of our
efforts. By Joey Driscoll
Can you Help?
World Prematurity Day is observed on the 17th November to raise
awareness of pre term birth and the care of premature babies world-
wide. Approximately 15 million babies are born prematurely every year, 1
in 10 around the world.
I volunteer on the neo natal unit at Bradford Royal Infirmary on behalf of
Bliss (Bliss.org.uk) and every year on World Prematurity Day we give gifts to
everyone currently spending time on the unit. This includes purple knitted
hats, one for each child. If any of our parents, grandparents or other
family members are a dab hand at knitting and would like to help out I
would be most grateful! I will need the hats for the first week in November
ideally (they must be purple!). If you need a pattern, please visit http://
www.fiberfluxblog.com/2011/02/free-pattern.html?m=1. Thank you.
Claire Gautam
Parking – Collection
Be aware that it is VERY busy at drop off and collection times. Please
consider parking at the village hall and walking up to school.
Assemblies
Next week: Thursday 22nd October it is Willow class assembly at 9am.
Friday 23rd October – achievement assembly, pupils are invited to bring
in something to show and speak about that they have achieved outside
school.
Oak and Willow class had been challenged to write a short story about
space on the back of a postcard. Amber Dobson won 2 tickets to go to
Settle Stories to see Tales from Cosmos—a story that was set in 1910
about a man shot down 9 suns so that we only had un in the whole wide
world. It was great.
Garg
rave C
of E
Prim
ary
School
Thurs
day 1
5th
Octo
ber
2015
Gargrave CE (VC) Primary School, Neville
Road, Gargrave, BD23 3RE
Tel: 01756 749433 Fax: 01756 749463
Email: admin@gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk
Website: www.gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk
See overleaf for
Holly Eyles (super reading)
Lola Dobson (excellent behaviour)
Ayaan Ali (knowing space facts—confident)
Samuel Blackwell (fantastic number task homework)
Lars Keyworth (perseverance with his can work)
Daisy Hill (working hard during paired reading)
Emma Hargraves and Megan Webb (for kindness towards other children)
Ollie Metcalfe (not giving up with his tricky work)
Zara Pratt (expressive brainbuilder work)
Every Child Counts: Every Child Contributes Issue 6
Copy
Skipping For Schools—Wednesday 21st October
We have invited Sports Skipping for Schools to host an all day skipping coaching
session where our children will have the opportunity to learn a range of skipping
skills. Skipping on a regular basis will help improve general levels of fitness and,
along with the different skipping skills and challenges taught during the day,
children will gain new found confidence in their own physical abilities. Parents are
invited to attend the presentation at the end of the day ay 2.50pm. Ropes will
also be available to buy on the day only at a cost of £4.00 each.
White Ribbons
Vacancy—Midday Supervisor
We are looking for a fun person who can work alongside the lunchtime staff to
ensure a safe, happy and active lunchtime. The person will be fully supported by
the other members of staff—5 hrs per week, working everyday 12.00pm – 1.00pm
Term Time Only. Closing date for applications ~ Friday 6th November 2015. The job
is advertised on the NYCC website or you can obtain an application pack from
school.
Vacancy—Kitchen Assistant
We have a vacancy for a general kitchen assistant to cover long term maternity
leave. It is for 2 hours per day (11.30am-1.30pm). To apply or ask any further
questions, please contact Vivienne Sadler on 07779788585.
Parents evening
Thanks to every parent for attending to discuss the learning of your child. Feed-
back from parents included requests for a maths calculations evening and a
meeting about assessment without levels. We shall arrange both for after half
term, dates to follow. Parents of pupils in years 2 and 6 were given copies of the
criteria for a child to be awarded ‘national standard’. There are higher expecta-
tions on the pupils in all areas of the curriculum. We also had out sample test ma-
terials for both these year groups, these are available on-line – just search for sam-
ple national tests. In the spring term we shall give you more details of the tests and
the teacher assessment.
Clubs
Apologies as a few parents thought that the clubs were on this week, but they
weren’t because of parents’ evenings. They are on next week.
Oak Class
We have had a report of head lice, please check your child's hair and treat. Also
could you bring in an old shirt for the children to wear when they are doing art.
APPLE This week in Apple class we have focused on
Phonics and Maths activities. In our Phonics sessions
we have covered c, ck, and e. The children have
read words and phrases and draw pictures. In
Maths we have worked on weight and counting
and comparing different sets of objects. Thank you
for coming to our parent consultation evenings and we hope you found them useful.
OAK This week Oak class have been working really hard on their grammar and have been
coming up with some fantastic adverbs and adjectives to make sentences more
interesting. We have also focused on using some tricky punctuation; using colons, semi-
colons, bullet points and brackets. We really enjoyed our trip to Ilkley Literary Festival to
listen to Steve Cole talk. He gave the class lots of great ideas for their writing. In maths
we have been thinking about multiples and factors and learning how to recognise a
prime number.
WILLOW
We have been working hard this week on our
place value skills and accuracy when working
with money. Some of us have been ‘purchasing’
sports cars at Willow Class garage and working
out how much we can save. We have also been
developing skills in newspaper writing and using
peer marking to check we have all used
our Top Tips effectively.
BEECH We are really enjoying our work on measuring length this week.
Here are Monty and Minny measuring their playdough ‘snakes’
with their bead strings. We have continued to look at non-fiction
books in literacy and have been labelling features of a fire engine
and writing facts about fire engines and fire fighters. We watched
a very exciting video clip of a fire being put out.
ASH Thank you to everyone that came to Ash class assembly. We really enjoyed sharing all of
our work with you. We worked hard to speak clearly and confidently. In Maths we have
been playing games on the computer to practice our rapid recall of number bonds. We
have been looking at recycling in Science and had lots of ideas about what we could
recycle! Please can I remind all parents that we do not bring toys into school (unless it is
for show and tell—see timetable). We have had lots of upset over toys getting lost or
swapped, so please can you ensure that your children do not bring them.
Lisa’s
Kitchen
Monday 2nd November
Cheese & Tomato Pasta
Syrup Sponge & Custard
Tuesday 3rd November
Meatloaf
Raspberry Bun
Wednesday 4th November
Meat & Potato Pie
Chocolate Mandarin
Sponge
Thursday 5th November
Chicken Korma
Toffee Apple Cake &
Custard
Friday 6th November
Battered Fish
Fruit Salad
Monday 19th October Fish Fingers
Jam Roly Poly & Custard
Tuesday 20th October Pasta Bolognaise
Flapjack
Wednesday 21st October
Chicken Pie
Arctic Roll & Peaches
Thursday 22nd October Beef Hot Pot
Biscuit, Cheese & Grapes
Friday 23rd October
Sausage, Potato & Beans
Halloween Biscuits
PTA Update and Forthcoming Party
Sally, Carolyn and myself would like to say a big hello to you all! We are
looking forward to some exciting times ahead with you all in the coming
school year. As always, we welcome any fundraising ideas from you and
volunteers are always welcomed with enthusiasm!
After our first informal meeting on Friday we have a few ideas that we
would like to share with you, the first being an Autumn fancy dress
party. This will be held in school on Friday 23rd October 3.30pm til
6 pm. Please see details on posters around school.
We are also asking for donations of any magazines, as current as possible,
that you have finished with (these can be adults or children's) We aim to
leave these in reception where you may purchase one for £1.50, a great
way to catch up on the latest celebrity gossip, gardening or children's
programmes at a much reduced price!
Finally, any jam jars that you may have, please bring them in! We have
many uses for them and donations throughout the year are appreciated.
Many thanks in advance, Claire Gautam
This is the main choice—there is
a vegetarian option available
every day (as per menus
sent at the start of term)
Football Report
Joey, Lewis, George, Jonny, Thomas, Alfie, Dylan, Corey, Neive and Kitty
all played in a Y3/4 football tournament at Sandylands last Friday. The
first match was 5 nil to us, then the 2nd match was 1 nil to them, 3rd
match was 3 nil to us, 4th match was 4 nil to them and then the 5th
match was 3 nil to us. Overall we came 4th . We were really proud of our
efforts. By Joey Driscoll
Can you Help?
World Prematurity Day is observed on the 17th November to raise
awareness of pre term birth and the care of premature babies world-
wide. Approximately 15 million babies are born prematurely every year, 1
in 10 around the world.
I volunteer on the neo natal unit at Bradford Royal Infirmary on behalf of
Bliss (Bliss.org.uk) and every year on World Prematurity Day we give gifts to
everyone currently spending time on the unit. This includes purple knitted
hats, one for each child. If any of our parents, grandparents or other
family members are a dab hand at knitting and would like to help out I
would be most grateful! I will need the hats for the first week in November
ideally (they must be purple!). If you need a pattern, please visit http://
www.fiberfluxblog.com/2011/02/free-pattern.html?m=1. Thank you.
Claire Gautam
Parking – Collection
Be aware that it is VERY busy at drop off and collection times. Please
consider parking at the village hall and walking up to school.
Assemblies
Next week: Thursday 22nd October it is Willow class assembly at 9am.
Friday 23rd October – achievement assembly, pupils are invited to bring
in something to show and speak about that they have achieved outside
school.
Oak and Willow class had been challenged to write a short story about
space on the back of a postcard. Amber Dobson won 2 tickets to go to
Settle Stories to see Tales from Cosmos—a story that was set in 1910
about a man shot down 9 suns so that we only had un in the whole wide
world. It was great.
Garg
rave C
of E
Prim
ary
School
Thurs
day 1
5th
Octo
ber
2015
Gargrave CE (VC) Primary School, Neville
Road, Gargrave, BD23 3RE
Tel: 01756 749433 Fax: 01756 749463
Email: admin@gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk
Website: www.gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk
See overleaf for
Holly Eyles (super reading)
Lola Dobson (excellent behaviour)
Ayaan Ali (knowing space facts—confident)
Samuel Blackwell (fantastic number task homework)
Lars Keyworth (perseverance with his can work)
Daisy Hill (working hard during paired reading)
Emma Hargraves and Megan Webb (for kindness towards other children)
Ollie Metcalfe (not giving up with his tricky work)
Zara Pratt (expressive brainbuilder work)
Every Child Counts: Every Child Contributes Issue 6
Copy
Skipping For Schools—Wednesday 21st October
We have invited Sports Skipping for Schools to host an all day skipping coaching
session where our children will have the opportunity to learn a range of skipping
skills. Skipping on a regular basis will help improve general levels of fitness and,
along with the different skipping skills and challenges taught during the day,
children will gain new found confidence in their own physical abilities. Parents are
invited to attend the presentation at the end of the day ay 2.50pm. Ropes will
also be available to buy on the day only at a cost of £4.00 each.
White Ribbons
Vacancy—Midday Supervisor
We are looking for a fun person who can work alongside the lunchtime staff to
ensure a safe, happy and active lunchtime. The person will be fully supported by
the other members of staff—5 hrs per week, working everyday 12.00pm – 1.00pm
Term Time Only. Closing date for applications ~ Friday 6th November 2015. The job
is advertised on the NYCC website or you can obtain an application pack from
school.
Vacancy—Kitchen Assistant
We have a vacancy for a general kitchen assistant to cover long term maternity
leave. It is for 2 hours per day (11.30am-1.30pm). To apply or ask any further
questions, please contact Vivienne Sadler on 07779788585.
Parents evening
Thanks to every parent for attending to discuss the learning of your child. Feed-
back from parents included requests for a maths calculations evening and a
meeting about assessment without levels. We shall arrange both for after half
term, dates to follow. Parents of pupils in years 2 and 6 were given copies of the
criteria for a child to be awarded ‘national standard’. There are higher expecta-
tions on the pupils in all areas of the curriculum. We also had out sample test ma-
terials for both these year groups, these are available on-line – just search for sam-
ple national tests. In the spring term we shall give you more details of the tests and
the teacher assessment.
Clubs
Apologies as a few parents thought that the clubs were on this week, but they
weren’t because of parents’ evenings. They are on next week.
Oak Class
We have had a report of head lice, please check your child's hair and treat. Also
could you bring in an old shirt for the children to wear when they are doing art.
APPLE This week in Apple class we have focused on
Phonics and Maths activities. In our Phonics sessions
we have covered c, ck, and e. The children have
read words and phrases and draw pictures. In
Maths we have worked on weight and counting
and comparing different sets of objects. Thank you
for coming to our parent consultation evenings and we hope you found them useful.
OAK This week Oak class have been working really hard on their grammar and have been
coming up with some fantastic adverbs and adjectives to make sentences more
interesting. We have also focused on using some tricky punctuation; using colons, semi-
colons, bullet points and brackets. We really enjoyed our trip to Ilkley Literary Festival to
listen to Steve Cole talk. He gave the class lots of great ideas for their writing. In maths
we have been thinking about multiples and factors and learning how to recognise a
prime number.
WILLOW
We have been working hard this week on our
place value skills and accuracy when working
with money. Some of us have been ‘purchasing’
sports cars at Willow Class garage and working
out how much we can save. We have also been
developing skills in newspaper writing and using
peer marking to check we have all used
our Top Tips effectively.
BEECH We are really enjoying our work on measuring length this week.
Here are Monty and Minny measuring their playdough ‘snakes’
with their bead strings. We have continued to look at non-fiction
books in literacy and have been labelling features of a fire engine
and writing facts about fire engines and fire fighters. We watched
a very exciting video clip of a fire being put out.
ASH Thank you to everyone that came to Ash class assembly. We really enjoyed sharing all of
our work with you. We worked hard to speak clearly and confidently. In Maths we have
been playing games on the computer to practice our rapid recall of number bonds. We
have been looking at recycling in Science and had lots of ideas about what we could
recycle! Please can I remind all parents that we do not bring toys into school (unless it is
for show and tell—see timetable). We have had lots of upset over toys getting lost or
swapped, so please can you ensure that your children do not bring them.
Lisa’s
Kitchen
Monday 2nd November
Cheese & Tomato Pasta
Syrup Sponge & Custard
Tuesday 3rd November
Meatloaf
Raspberry Bun
Wednesday 4th November
Meat & Potato Pie
Chocolate Mandarin
Sponge
Thursday 5th November
Chicken Korma
Toffee Apple Cake &
Custard
Friday 6th November
Battered Fish
Fruit Salad
Monday 19th October Fish Fingers
Jam Roly Poly & Custard
Tuesday 20th October Pasta Bolognaise
Flapjack
Wednesday 21st October
Chicken Pie
Arctic Roll & Peaches
Thursday 22nd October Beef Hot Pot
Biscuit, Cheese & Grapes
Friday 23rd October
Sausage, Potato & Beans
Halloween Biscuits
PTA Update and Forthcoming Party
Sally, Carolyn and myself would like to say a big hello to you all! We are
looking forward to some exciting times ahead with you all in the coming
school year. As always, we welcome any fundraising ideas from you and
volunteers are always welcomed with enthusiasm!
After our first informal meeting on Friday we have a few ideas that we
would like to share with you, the first being an Autumn fancy dress
party. This will be held in school on Friday 23rd October 3.30pm til
6 pm. Please see details on posters around school.
We are also asking for donations of any magazines, as current as possible,
that you have finished with (these can be adults or children's) We aim to
leave these in reception where you may purchase one for £1.50, a great
way to catch up on the latest celebrity gossip, gardening or children's
programmes at a much reduced price!
Finally, any jam jars that you may have, please bring them in! We have
many uses for them and donations throughout the year are appreciated.
Many thanks in advance, Claire Gautam
This is the main choice—there is
a vegetarian option available
every day (as per menus
sent at the start of term)
Football Report
Joey, Lewis, George, Jonny, Thomas, Alfie, Dylan, Corey, Neive and Kitty
all played in a Y3/4 football tournament at Sandylands last Friday. The
first match was 5 nil to us, then the 2nd match was 1 nil to them, 3rd
match was 3 nil to us, 4th match was 4 nil to them and then the 5th
match was 3 nil to us. Overall we came 4th . We were really proud of our
efforts. By Joey Driscoll
Can you Help?
World Prematurity Day is observed on the 17th November to raise
awareness of pre term birth and the care of premature babies world-
wide. Approximately 15 million babies are born prematurely every year, 1
in 10 around the world.
I volunteer on the neo natal unit at Bradford Royal Infirmary on behalf of
Bliss (Bliss.org.uk) and every year on World Prematurity Day we give gifts to
everyone currently spending time on the unit. This includes purple knitted
hats, one for each child. If any of our parents, grandparents or other
family members are a dab hand at knitting and would like to help out I
would be most grateful! I will need the hats for the first week in November
ideally (they must be purple!). If you need a pattern, please visit http://
www.fiberfluxblog.com/2011/02/free-pattern.html?m=1. Thank you.
Claire Gautam
Parking – Collection
Be aware that it is VERY busy at drop off and collection times. Please
consider parking at the village hall and walking up to school.
Assemblies
Next week: Thursday 22nd October it is Willow class assembly at 9am.
Friday 23rd October – achievement assembly, pupils are invited to bring
in something to show and speak about that they have achieved outside
school.
Oak and Willow class had been challenged to write a short story about
space on the back of a postcard. Amber Dobson won 2 tickets to go to
Settle Stories to see Tales from Cosmos—a story that was set in 1910
about a man shot down 9 suns so that we only had un in the whole wide
world. It was great.
Garg
rave C
of E
Prim
ary
School
Thurs
day 1
5th
Octo
ber
2015
Gargrave CE (VC) Primary School, Neville
Road, Gargrave, BD23 3RE
Tel: 01756 749433 Fax: 01756 749463
Email: admin@gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk
Website: www.gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk
See overleaf for
Holly Eyles (super reading)
Lola Dobson (excellent behaviour)
Ayaan Ali (knowing space facts—confident)
Samuel Blackwell (fantastic number task homework)
Lars Keyworth (perseverance with his can work)
Daisy Hill (working hard during paired reading)
Emma Hargraves and Megan Webb (for kindness towards other children)
Ollie Metcalfe (not giving up with his tricky work)
Zara Pratt (expressive brainbuilder work)
Every Child Counts: Every Child Contributes Issue 6
OSC
Skipping For Schools—Wednesday 21st October
We have invited Sports Skipping for Schools to host an all day skipping coaching
session where our children will have the opportunity to learn a range of skipping
skills. Skipping on a regular basis will help improve general levels of fitness and,
along with the different skipping skills and challenges taught during the day,
children will gain new found confidence in their own physical abilities. Parents are
invited to attend the presentation at the end of the day ay 2.50pm. Ropes will
also be available to buy on the day only at a cost of £4.00 each.
White Ribbons
Vacancy—Midday Supervisor
We are looking for a fun person who can work alongside the lunchtime staff to
ensure a safe, happy and active lunchtime. The person will be fully supported by
the other members of staff—5 hrs per week, working everyday 12.00pm – 1.00pm
Term Time Only. Closing date for applications ~ Friday 6th November 2015. The job
is advertised on the NYCC website or you can obtain an application pack from
school.
Vacancy—Kitchen Assistant
We have a vacancy for a general kitchen assistant to cover long term maternity
leave. It is for 2 hours per day (11.30am-1.30pm). To apply or ask any further
questions, please contact Vivienne Sadler on 07779788585.
Parents evening
Thanks to every parent for attending to discuss the learning of your child. Feed-
back from parents included requests for a maths calculations evening and a
meeting about assessment without levels. We shall arrange both for after half
term, dates to follow. Parents of pupils in years 2 and 6 were given copies of the
criteria for a child to be awarded ‘national standard’. There are higher expecta-
tions on the pupils in all areas of the curriculum. We also had out sample test ma-
terials for both these year groups, these are available on-line – just search for sam-
ple national tests. In the spring term we shall give you more details of the tests and
the teacher assessment.
Clubs
Apologies as a few parents thought that the clubs were on this week, but they
weren’t because of parents’ evenings. They are on next week.
Oak Class
We have had a report of head lice, please check your child's hair and treat. Also
could you bring in an old shirt for the children to wear when they are doing art.
APPLE This week in Apple class we have focused on
Phonics and Maths activities. In our Phonics sessions
we have covered c, ck, and e. The children have
read words and phrases and draw pictures. In
Maths we have worked on weight and counting
and comparing different sets of objects. Thank you
for coming to our parent consultation evenings and we hope you found them useful.
OAK This week Oak class have been working really hard on their grammar and have been
coming up with some fantastic adverbs and adjectives to make sentences more
interesting. We have also focused on using some tricky punctuation; using colons, semi-
colons, bullet points and brackets. We really enjoyed our trip to Ilkley Literary Festival to
listen to Steve Cole talk. He gave the class lots of great ideas for their writing. In maths
we have been thinking about multiples and factors and learning how to recognise a
prime number.
WILLOW
We have been working hard this week on our
place value skills and accuracy when working
with money. Some of us have been ‘purchasing’
sports cars at Willow Class garage and working
out how much we can save. We have also been
developing skills in newspaper writing and using
peer marking to check we have all used
our Top Tips effectively.
BEECH We are really enjoying our work on measuring length this week.
Here are Monty and Minny measuring their playdough ‘snakes’
with their bead strings. We have continued to look at non-fiction
books in literacy and have been labelling features of a fire engine
and writing facts about fire engines and fire fighters. We watched
a very exciting video clip of a fire being put out.
ASH Thank you to everyone that came to Ash class assembly. We really enjoyed sharing all of
our work with you. We worked hard to speak clearly and confidently. In Maths we have
been playing games on the computer to practice our rapid recall of number bonds. We
have been looking at recycling in Science and had lots of ideas about what we could
recycle! Please can I remind all parents that we do not bring toys into school (unless it is
for show and tell—see timetable). We have had lots of upset over toys getting lost or
swapped, so please can you ensure that your children do not bring them.
Lisa’s
Kitchen
Monday 2nd November
Cheese & Tomato Pasta
Syrup Sponge & Custard
Tuesday 3rd November
Meatloaf
Raspberry Bun
Wednesday 4th November
Meat & Potato Pie
Chocolate Mandarin
Sponge
Thursday 5th November
Chicken Korma
Toffee Apple Cake &
Custard
Friday 6th November
Battered Fish
Fruit Salad
Monday 19th October Fish Fingers
Jam Roly Poly & Custard
Tuesday 20th October Pasta Bolognaise
Flapjack
Wednesday 21st October
Chicken Pie
Arctic Roll & Peaches
Thursday 22nd October Beef Hot Pot
Biscuit, Cheese & Grapes
Friday 23rd October
Sausage, Potato & Beans
Halloween Biscuits
PTA Update and Forthcoming Party
Sally, Carolyn and myself would like to say a big hello to you all! We are
looking forward to some exciting times ahead with you all in the coming
school year. As always, we welcome any fundraising ideas from you and
volunteers are always welcomed with enthusiasm!
After our first informal meeting on Friday we have a few ideas that we
would like to share with you, the first being an Autumn fancy dress
party. This will be held in school on Friday 23rd October 3.30pm til
6 pm. Please see details on posters around school.
We are also asking for donations of any magazines, as current as possible,
that you have finished with (these can be adults or children's) We aim to
leave these in reception where you may purchase one for £1.50, a great
way to catch up on the latest celebrity gossip, gardening or children's
programmes at a much reduced price!
Finally, any jam jars that you may have, please bring them in! We have
many uses for them and donations throughout the year are appreciated.
Many thanks in advance, Claire Gautam
This is the main choice—there is
a vegetarian option available
every day (as per menus
sent at the start of term)
Football Report
Joey, Lewis, George, Jonny, Thomas, Alfie, Dylan, Corey, Neive and Kitty
all played in a Y3/4 football tournament at Sandylands last Friday. The
first match was 5 nil to us, then the 2nd match was 1 nil to them, 3rd
match was 3 nil to us, 4th match was 4 nil to them and then the 5th
match was 3 nil to us. Overall we came 4th . We were really proud of our
efforts. By Joey Driscoll
Can you Help?
World Prematurity Day is observed on the 17th November to raise
awareness of pre term birth and the care of premature babies world-
wide. Approximately 15 million babies are born prematurely every year, 1
in 10 around the world.
I volunteer on the neo natal unit at Bradford Royal Infirmary on behalf of
Bliss (Bliss.org.uk) and every year on World Prematurity Day we give gifts to
everyone currently spending time on the unit. This includes purple knitted
hats, one for each child. If any of our parents, grandparents or other
family members are a dab hand at knitting and would like to help out I
would be most grateful! I will need the hats for the first week in November
ideally (they must be purple!). If you need a pattern, please visit http://
www.fiberfluxblog.com/2011/02/free-pattern.html?m=1. Thank you.
Claire Gautam
Parking – Collection
Be aware that it is VERY busy at drop off and collection times. Please
consider parking at the village hall and walking up to school.
Assemblies
Next week: Thursday 22nd October it is Willow class assembly at 9am.
Friday 23rd October – achievement assembly, pupils are invited to bring
in something to show and speak about that they have achieved outside
school.
Oak and Willow class had been challenged to write a short story about
space on the back of a postcard. Amber Dobson won 2 tickets to go to
Settle Stories to see Tales from Cosmos—a story that was set in 1910
about a man shot down 9 suns so that we only had un in the whole wide
world. It was great.
Garg
rave C
of E
Prim
ary
School
Thurs
day 1
5th
Octo
ber
2015
Gargrave CE (VC) Primary School, Neville
Road, Gargrave, BD23 3RE
Tel: 01756 749433 Fax: 01756 749463
Email: admin@gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk
Website: www.gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk
See overleaf for
Holly Eyles (super reading)
Lola Dobson (excellent behaviour)
Ayaan Ali (knowing space facts—confident)
Samuel Blackwell (fantastic number task homework)
Lars Keyworth (perseverance with his can work)
Daisy Hill (working hard during paired reading)
Emma Hargraves and Megan Webb (for kindness towards other children)
Ollie Metcalfe (not giving up with his tricky work)
Zara Pratt (expressive brainbuilder work)
Every Child Counts: Every Child Contributes Issue 6
E-mail group
Skipping For Schools—Wednesday 21st October
We have invited Sports Skipping for Schools to host an all day skipping coaching
session where our children will have the opportunity to learn a range of skipping
skills. Skipping on a regular basis will help improve general levels of fitness and,
along with the different skipping skills and challenges taught during the day,
children will gain new found confidence in their own physical abilities. Parents are
invited to attend the presentation at the end of the day ay 2.50pm. Ropes will
also be available to buy on the day only at a cost of £4.00 each.
White Ribbons
Vacancy—Midday Supervisor
We are looking for a fun person who can work alongside the lunchtime staff to
ensure a safe, happy and active lunchtime. The person will be fully supported by
the other members of staff—5 hrs per week, working everyday 12.00pm – 1.00pm
Term Time Only. Closing date for applications ~ Friday 6th November 2015. The job
is advertised on the NYCC website or you can obtain an application pack from
school.
Vacancy—Kitchen Assistant
We have a vacancy for a general kitchen assistant to cover long term maternity
leave. It is for 2 hours per day (11.30am-1.30pm). To apply or ask any further
questions, please contact Vivienne Sadler on 07779788585.
Parents evening
Thanks to every parent for attending to discuss the learning of your child. Feed-
back from parents included requests for a maths calculations evening and a
meeting about assessment without levels. We shall arrange both for after half
term, dates to follow. Parents of pupils in years 2 and 6 were given copies of the
criteria for a child to be awarded ‘national standard’. There are higher expecta-
tions on the pupils in all areas of the curriculum. We also had out sample test ma-
terials for both these year groups, these are available on-line – just search for sam-
ple national tests. In the spring term we shall give you more details of the tests and
the teacher assessment.
Clubs
Apologies as a few parents thought that the clubs were on this week, but they
weren’t because of parents’ evenings. They are on next week.
Oak Class
We have had a report of head lice, please check your child's hair and treat. Also
could you bring in an old shirt for the children to wear when they are doing art.
APPLE This week in Apple class we have focused on
Phonics and Maths activities. In our Phonics sessions
we have covered c, ck, and e. The children have
read words and phrases and draw pictures. In
Maths we have worked on weight and counting
and comparing different sets of objects. Thank you
for coming to our parent consultation evenings and we hope you found them useful.
OAK This week Oak class have been working really hard on their grammar and have been
coming up with some fantastic adverbs and adjectives to make sentences more
interesting. We have also focused on using some tricky punctuation; using colons, semi-
colons, bullet points and brackets. We really enjoyed our trip to Ilkley Literary Festival to
listen to Steve Cole talk. He gave the class lots of great ideas for their writing. In maths
we have been thinking about multiples and factors and learning how to recognise a
prime number.
WILLOW
We have been working hard this week on our
place value skills and accuracy when working
with money. Some of us have been ‘purchasing’
sports cars at Willow Class garage and working
out how much we can save. We have also been
developing skills in newspaper writing and using
peer marking to check we have all used
our Top Tips effectively.
BEECH We are really enjoying our work on measuring length this week.
Here are Monty and Minny measuring their playdough ‘snakes’
with their bead strings. We have continued to look at non-fiction
books in literacy and have been labelling features of a fire engine
and writing facts about fire engines and fire fighters. We watched
a very exciting video clip of a fire being put out.
ASH Thank you to everyone that came to Ash class assembly. We really enjoyed sharing all of
our work with you. We worked hard to speak clearly and confidently. In Maths we have
been playing games on the computer to practice our rapid recall of number bonds. We
have been looking at recycling in Science and had lots of ideas about what we could
recycle! Please can I remind all parents that we do not bring toys into school (unless it is
for show and tell—see timetable). We have had lots of upset over toys getting lost or
swapped, so please can you ensure that your children do not bring them.
Lisa’s
Kitchen
Monday 2nd November
Cheese & Tomato Pasta
Syrup Sponge & Custard
Tuesday 3rd November
Meatloaf
Raspberry Bun
Wednesday 4th November
Meat & Potato Pie
Chocolate Mandarin
Sponge
Thursday 5th November
Chicken Korma
Toffee Apple Cake &
Custard
Friday 6th November
Battered Fish
Fruit Salad
Monday 19th October Fish Fingers
Jam Roly Poly & Custard
Tuesday 20th October Pasta Bolognaise
Flapjack
Wednesday 21st October
Chicken Pie
Arctic Roll & Peaches
Thursday 22nd October Beef Hot Pot
Biscuit, Cheese & Grapes
Friday 23rd October
Sausage, Potato & Beans
Halloween Biscuits
PTA Update and Forthcoming Party
Sally, Carolyn and myself would like to say a big hello to you all! We are
looking forward to some exciting times ahead with you all in the coming
school year. As always, we welcome any fundraising ideas from you and
volunteers are always welcomed with enthusiasm!
After our first informal meeting on Friday we have a few ideas that we
would like to share with you, the first being an Autumn fancy dress
party. This will be held in school on Friday 23rd October 3.30pm til
6 pm. Please see details on posters around school.
We are also asking for donations of any magazines, as current as possible,
that you have finished with (these can be adults or children's) We aim to
leave these in reception where you may purchase one for £1.50, a great
way to catch up on the latest celebrity gossip, gardening or children's
programmes at a much reduced price!
Finally, any jam jars that you may have, please bring them in! We have
many uses for them and donations throughout the year are appreciated.
Many thanks in advance, Claire Gautam
This is the main choice—there is
a vegetarian option available
every day (as per menus
sent at the start of term)
Football Report
Joey, Lewis, George, Jonny, Thomas, Alfie, Dylan, Corey, Neive and Kitty
all played in a Y3/4 football tournament at Sandylands last Friday. The
first match was 5 nil to us, then the 2nd match was 1 nil to them, 3rd
match was 3 nil to us, 4th match was 4 nil to them and then the 5th
match was 3 nil to us. Overall we came 4th . We were really proud of our
efforts. By Joey Driscoll
Can you Help?
World Prematurity Day is observed on the 17th November to raise
awareness of pre term birth and the care of premature babies world-
wide. Approximately 15 million babies are born prematurely every year, 1
in 10 around the world.
I volunteer on the neo natal unit at Bradford Royal Infirmary on behalf of
Bliss (Bliss.org.uk) and every year on World Prematurity Day we give gifts to
everyone currently spending time on the unit. This includes purple knitted
hats, one for each child. If any of our parents, grandparents or other
family members are a dab hand at knitting and would like to help out I
would be most grateful! I will need the hats for the first week in November
ideally (they must be purple!). If you need a pattern, please visit http://
www.fiberfluxblog.com/2011/02/free-pattern.html?m=1. Thank you.
Claire Gautam
Parking – Collection
Be aware that it is VERY busy at drop off and collection times. Please
consider parking at the village hall and walking up to school.
Assemblies
Next week: Thursday 22nd October it is Willow class assembly at 9am.
Friday 23rd October – achievement assembly, pupils are invited to bring
in something to show and speak about that they have achieved outside
school.
Oak and Willow class had been challenged to write a short story about
space on the back of a postcard. Amber Dobson won 2 tickets to go to
Settle Stories to see Tales from Cosmos—a story that was set in 1910
about a man shot down 9 suns so that we only had un in the whole wide
world. It was great.
Garg
rave C
of E
Prim
ary
School
Thurs
day 1
5th
Octo
ber
2015
Gargrave CE (VC) Primary School, Neville
Road, Gargrave, BD23 3RE
Tel: 01756 749433 Fax: 01756 749463
Email: admin@gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk
Website: www.gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk
See overleaf for
Holly Eyles (super reading)
Lola Dobson (excellent behaviour)
Ayaan Ali (knowing space facts—confident)
Samuel Blackwell (fantastic number task homework)
Lars Keyworth (perseverance with his can work)
Daisy Hill (working hard during paired reading)
Emma Hargraves and Megan Webb (for kindness towards other children)
Ollie Metcalfe (not giving up with his tricky work)
Zara Pratt (expressive brainbuilder work)
Every Child Counts: Every Child Contributes Issue 6
Mrs Peel
Skipping For Schools—Wednesday 21st October
We have invited Sports Skipping for Schools to host an all day skipping coaching
session where our children will have the opportunity to learn a range of skipping
skills. Skipping on a regular basis will help improve general levels of fitness and,
along with the different skipping skills and challenges taught during the day,
children will gain new found confidence in their own physical abilities. Parents are
invited to attend the presentation at the end of the day ay 2.50pm. Ropes will
also be available to buy on the day only at a cost of £4.00 each.
White Ribbons
Vacancy—Midday Supervisor
We are looking for a fun person who can work alongside the lunchtime staff to
ensure a safe, happy and active lunchtime. The person will be fully supported by
the other members of staff—5 hrs per week, working everyday 12.00pm – 1.00pm
Term Time Only. Closing date for applications ~ Friday 6th November 2015. The job
is advertised on the NYCC website or you can obtain an application pack from
school.
Vacancy—Kitchen Assistant
We have a vacancy for a general kitchen assistant to cover long term maternity
leave. It is for 2 hours per day (11.30am-1.30pm). To apply or ask any further
questions, please contact Vivienne Sadler on 07779788585.
Parents evening
Thanks to every parent for attending to discuss the learning of your child. Feed-
back from parents included requests for a maths calculations evening and a
meeting about assessment without levels. We shall arrange both for after half
term, dates to follow. Parents of pupils in years 2 and 6 were given copies of the
criteria for a child to be awarded ‘national standard’. There are higher expecta-
tions on the pupils in all areas of the curriculum. We also had out sample test ma-
terials for both these year groups, these are available on-line – just search for sam-
ple national tests. In the spring term we shall give you more details of the tests and
the teacher assessment.
Clubs
Apologies as a few parents thought that the clubs were on this week, but they
weren’t because of parents’ evenings. They are on next week.
Oak Class
We have had a report of head lice, please check your child's hair and treat. Also
could you bring in an old shirt for the children to wear when they are doing art.
APPLE This week in Apple class we have focused on
Phonics and Maths activities. In our Phonics sessions
we have covered c, ck, and e. The children have
read words and phrases and draw pictures. In
Maths we have worked on weight and counting
and comparing different sets of objects. Thank you
for coming to our parent consultation evenings and we hope you found them useful.
OAK This week Oak class have been working really hard on their grammar and have been
coming up with some fantastic adverbs and adjectives to make sentences more
interesting. We have also focused on using some tricky punctuation; using colons, semi-
colons, bullet points and brackets. We really enjoyed our trip to Ilkley Literary Festival to
listen to Steve Cole talk. He gave the class lots of great ideas for their writing. In maths
we have been thinking about multiples and factors and learning how to recognise a
prime number.
WILLOW
We have been working hard this week on our
place value skills and accuracy when working
with money. Some of us have been ‘purchasing’
sports cars at Willow Class garage and working
out how much we can save. We have also been
developing skills in newspaper writing and using
peer marking to check we have all used
our Top Tips effectively.
BEECH We are really enjoying our work on measuring length this week.
Here are Monty and Minny measuring their playdough ‘snakes’
with their bead strings. We have continued to look at non-fiction
books in literacy and have been labelling features of a fire engine
and writing facts about fire engines and fire fighters. We watched
a very exciting video clip of a fire being put out.
ASH Thank you to everyone that came to Ash class assembly. We really enjoyed sharing all of
our work with you. We worked hard to speak clearly and confidently. In Maths we have
been playing games on the computer to practice our rapid recall of number bonds. We
have been looking at recycling in Science and had lots of ideas about what we could
recycle! Please can I remind all parents that we do not bring toys into school (unless it is
for show and tell—see timetable). We have had lots of upset over toys getting lost or
swapped, so please can you ensure that your children do not bring them.
Lisa’s
Kitchen
Monday 2nd November
Cheese & Tomato Pasta
Syrup Sponge & Custard
Tuesday 3rd November
Meatloaf
Raspberry Bun
Wednesday 4th November
Meat & Potato Pie
Chocolate Mandarin
Sponge
Thursday 5th November
Chicken Korma
Toffee Apple Cake &
Custard
Friday 6th November
Battered Fish
Fruit Salad
Monday 19th October Fish Fingers
Jam Roly Poly & Custard
Tuesday 20th October Pasta Bolognaise
Flapjack
Wednesday 21st October
Chicken Pie
Arctic Roll & Peaches
Thursday 22nd October Beef Hot Pot
Biscuit, Cheese & Grapes
Friday 23rd October
Sausage, Potato & Beans
Halloween Biscuits
PTA Update and Forthcoming Party
Sally, Carolyn and myself would like to say a big hello to you all! We are
looking forward to some exciting times ahead with you all in the coming
school year. As always, we welcome any fundraising ideas from you and
volunteers are always welcomed with enthusiasm!
After our first informal meeting on Friday we have a few ideas that we
would like to share with you, the first being an Autumn fancy dress
party. This will be held in school on Friday 23rd October 3.30pm til
6 pm. Please see details on posters around school.
We are also asking for donations of any magazines, as current as possible,
that you have finished with (these can be adults or children's) We aim to
leave these in reception where you may purchase one for £1.50, a great
way to catch up on the latest celebrity gossip, gardening or children's
programmes at a much reduced price!
Finally, any jam jars that you may have, please bring them in! We have
many uses for them and donations throughout the year are appreciated.
Many thanks in advance, Claire Gautam
This is the main choice—there is
a vegetarian option available
every day (as per menus
sent at the start of term)
Football Report
Joey, Lewis, George, Jonny, Thomas, Alfie, Dylan, Corey, Neive and Kitty
all played in a Y3/4 football tournament at Sandylands last Friday. The
first match was 5 nil to us, then the 2nd match was 1 nil to them, 3rd
match was 3 nil to us, 4th match was 4 nil to them and then the 5th
match was 3 nil to us. Overall we came 4th . We were really proud of our
efforts. By Joey Driscoll
Can you Help?
World Prematurity Day is observed on the 17th November to raise
awareness of pre term birth and the care of premature babies world-
wide. Approximately 15 million babies are born prematurely every year, 1
in 10 around the world.
I volunteer on the neo natal unit at Bradford Royal Infirmary on behalf of
Bliss (Bliss.org.uk) and every year on World Prematurity Day we give gifts to
everyone currently spending time on the unit. This includes purple knitted
hats, one for each child. If any of our parents, grandparents or other
family members are a dab hand at knitting and would like to help out I
would be most grateful! I will need the hats for the first week in November
ideally (they must be purple!). If you need a pattern, please visit http://
www.fiberfluxblog.com/2011/02/free-pattern.html?m=1. Thank you.
Claire Gautam
Parking – Collection
Be aware that it is VERY busy at drop off and collection times. Please
consider parking at the village hall and walking up to school.
Assemblies
Next week: Thursday 22nd October it is Willow class assembly at 9am.
Friday 23rd October – achievement assembly, pupils are invited to bring
in something to show and speak about that they have achieved outside
school.
Oak and Willow class had been challenged to write a short story about
space on the back of a postcard. Amber Dobson won 2 tickets to go to
Settle Stories to see Tales from Cosmos—a story that was set in 1910
about a man shot down 9 suns so that we only had un in the whole wide
world. It was great.
Garg
rave C
of E
Prim
ary
School
Thurs
day 1
5th
Octo
ber
2015
Gargrave CE (VC) Primary School, Neville
Road, Gargrave, BD23 3RE
Tel: 01756 749433 Fax: 01756 749463
Email: admin@gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk
Website: www.gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk
See overleaf for
Holly Eyles (super reading)
Lola Dobson (excellent behaviour)
Ayaan Ali (knowing space facts—confident)
Samuel Blackwell (fantastic number task homework)
Lars Keyworth (perseverance with his can work)
Daisy Hill (working hard during paired reading)
Emma Hargraves and Megan Webb (for kindness towards other children)
Ollie Metcalfe (not giving up with his tricky work)
Zara Pratt (expressive brainbuilder work)
Every Child Counts: Every Child Contributes Issue 6
Joyce
Skipping For Schools—Wednesday 21st October
We have invited Sports Skipping for Schools to host an all day skipping coaching
session where our children will have the opportunity to learn a range of skipping
skills. Skipping on a regular basis will help improve general levels of fitness and,
along with the different skipping skills and challenges taught during the day,
children will gain new found confidence in their own physical abilities. Parents are
invited to attend the presentation at the end of the day ay 2.50pm. Ropes will
also be available to buy on the day only at a cost of £4.00 each.
White Ribbons
Vacancy—Midday Supervisor
We are looking for a fun person who can work alongside the lunchtime staff to
ensure a safe, happy and active lunchtime. The person will be fully supported by
the other members of staff—5 hrs per week, working everyday 12.00pm – 1.00pm
Term Time Only. Closing date for applications ~ Friday 6th November 2015. The job
is advertised on the NYCC website or you can obtain an application pack from
school.
Vacancy—Kitchen Assistant
We have a vacancy for a general kitchen assistant to cover long term maternity
leave. It is for 2 hours per day (11.30am-1.30pm). To apply or ask any further
questions, please contact Vivienne Sadler on 07779788585.
Parents evening
Thanks to every parent for attending to discuss the learning of your child. Feed-
back from parents included requests for a maths calculations evening and a
meeting about assessment without levels. We shall arrange both for after half
term, dates to follow. Parents of pupils in years 2 and 6 were given copies of the
criteria for a child to be awarded ‘national standard’. There are higher expecta-
tions on the pupils in all areas of the curriculum. We also had out sample test ma-
terials for both these year groups, these are available on-line – just search for sam-
ple national tests. In the spring term we shall give you more details of the tests and
the teacher assessment.
Clubs
Apologies as a few parents thought that the clubs were on this week, but they
weren’t because of parents’ evenings. They are on next week.
Oak Class
We have had a report of head lice, please check your child's hair and treat. Also
could you bring in an old shirt for the children to wear when they are doing art.
APPLE This week in Apple class we have focused on
Phonics and Maths activities. In our Phonics sessions
we have covered c, ck, and e. The children have
read words and phrases and draw pictures. In
Maths we have worked on weight and counting
and comparing different sets of objects. Thank you
for coming to our parent consultation evenings and we hope you found them useful.
OAK This week Oak class have been working really hard on their grammar and have been
coming up with some fantastic adverbs and adjectives to make sentences more
interesting. We have also focused on using some tricky punctuation; using colons, semi-
colons, bullet points and brackets. We really enjoyed our trip to Ilkley Literary Festival to
listen to Steve Cole talk. He gave the class lots of great ideas for their writing. In maths
we have been thinking about multiples and factors and learning how to recognise a
prime number.
WILLOW
We have been working hard this week on our
place value skills and accuracy when working
with money. Some of us have been ‘purchasing’
sports cars at Willow Class garage and working
out how much we can save. We have also been
developing skills in newspaper writing and using
peer marking to check we have all used
our Top Tips effectively.
BEECH We are really enjoying our work on measuring length this week.
Here are Monty and Minny measuring their playdough ‘snakes’
with their bead strings. We have continued to look at non-fiction
books in literacy and have been labelling features of a fire engine
and writing facts about fire engines and fire fighters. We watched
a very exciting video clip of a fire being put out.
ASH Thank you to everyone that came to Ash class assembly. We really enjoyed sharing all of
our work with you. We worked hard to speak clearly and confidently. In Maths we have
been playing games on the computer to practice our rapid recall of number bonds. We
have been looking at recycling in Science and had lots of ideas about what we could
recycle! Please can I remind all parents that we do not bring toys into school (unless it is
for show and tell—see timetable). We have had lots of upset over toys getting lost or
swapped, so please can you ensure that your children do not bring them.
Lisa’s
Kitchen
Monday 2nd November
Cheese & Tomato Pasta
Syrup Sponge & Custard
Tuesday 3rd November
Meatloaf
Raspberry Bun
Wednesday 4th November
Meat & Potato Pie
Chocolate Mandarin
Sponge
Thursday 5th November
Chicken Korma
Toffee Apple Cake &
Custard
Friday 6th November
Battered Fish
Fruit Salad
Monday 19th October Fish Fingers
Jam Roly Poly & Custard
Tuesday 20th October Pasta Bolognaise
Flapjack
Wednesday 21st October
Chicken Pie
Arctic Roll & Peaches
Thursday 22nd October Beef Hot Pot
Biscuit, Cheese & Grapes
Friday 23rd October
Sausage, Potato & Beans
Halloween Biscuits
PTA Update and Forthcoming Party
Sally, Carolyn and myself would like to say a big hello to you all! We are
looking forward to some exciting times ahead with you all in the coming
school year. As always, we welcome any fundraising ideas from you and
volunteers are always welcomed with enthusiasm!
After our first informal meeting on Friday we have a few ideas that we
would like to share with you, the first being an Autumn fancy dress
party. This will be held in school on Friday 23rd October 3.30pm til
6 pm. Please see details on posters around school.
We are also asking for donations of any magazines, as current as possible,
that you have finished with (these can be adults or children's) We aim to
leave these in reception where you may purchase one for £1.50, a great
way to catch up on the latest celebrity gossip, gardening or children's
programmes at a much reduced price!
Finally, any jam jars that you may have, please bring them in! We have
many uses for them and donations throughout the year are appreciated.
Many thanks in advance, Claire Gautam
This is the main choice—there is
a vegetarian option available
every day (as per menus
sent at the start of term)
Football Report
Joey, Lewis, George, Jonny, Thomas, Alfie, Dylan, Corey, Neive and Kitty
all played in a Y3/4 football tournament at Sandylands last Friday. The
first match was 5 nil to us, then the 2nd match was 1 nil to them, 3rd
match was 3 nil to us, 4th match was 4 nil to them and then the 5th
match was 3 nil to us. Overall we came 4th . We were really proud of our
efforts. By Joey Driscoll
Can you Help?
World Prematurity Day is observed on the 17th November to raise
awareness of pre term birth and the care of premature babies world-
wide. Approximately 15 million babies are born prematurely every year, 1
in 10 around the world.
I volunteer on the neo natal unit at Bradford Royal Infirmary on behalf of
Bliss (Bliss.org.uk) and every year on World Prematurity Day we give gifts to
everyone currently spending time on the unit. This includes purple knitted
hats, one for each child. If any of our parents, grandparents or other
family members are a dab hand at knitting and would like to help out I
would be most grateful! I will need the hats for the first week in November
ideally (they must be purple!). If you need a pattern, please visit http://
www.fiberfluxblog.com/2011/02/free-pattern.html?m=1. Thank you.
Claire Gautam
Parking – Collection
Be aware that it is VERY busy at drop off and collection times. Please
consider parking at the village hall and walking up to school.
Assemblies
Next week: Thursday 22nd October it is Willow class assembly at 9am.
Friday 23rd October – achievement assembly, pupils are invited to bring
in something to show and speak about that they have achieved outside
school.
Oak and Willow class had been challenged to write a short story about
space on the back of a postcard. Amber Dobson won 2 tickets to go to
Settle Stories to see Tales from Cosmos—a story that was set in 1910
about a man shot down 9 suns so that we only had un in the whole wide
world. It was great.
Garg
rave C
of E
Prim
ary
School
Thurs
day 1
5th
Octo
ber
2015
Gargrave CE (VC) Primary School, Neville
Road, Gargrave, BD23 3RE
Tel: 01756 749433 Fax: 01756 749463
Email: admin@gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk
Website: www.gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk
See overleaf for
Holly Eyles (super reading)
Lola Dobson (excellent behaviour)
Ayaan Ali (knowing space facts—confident)
Samuel Blackwell (fantastic number task homework)
Lars Keyworth (perseverance with his can work)
Daisy Hill (working hard during paired reading)
Emma Hargraves and Megan Webb (for kindness towards other children)
Ollie Metcalfe (not giving up with his tricky work)
Zara Pratt (expressive brainbuilder work)
Every Child Counts: Every Child Contributes Issue 6
Copy
Skipping For Schools—Wednesday 21st October
We have invited Sports Skipping for Schools to host an all day skipping coaching
session where our children will have the opportunity to learn a range of skipping
skills. Skipping on a regular basis will help improve general levels of fitness and,
along with the different skipping skills and challenges taught during the day,
children will gain new found confidence in their own physical abilities. Parents are
invited to attend the presentation at the end of the day ay 2.50pm. Ropes will
also be available to buy on the day only at a cost of £4.00 each.
White Ribbons
Vacancy—Midday Supervisor
We are looking for a fun person who can work alongside the lunchtime staff to
ensure a safe, happy and active lunchtime. The person will be fully supported by
the other members of staff—5 hrs per week, working everyday 12.00pm – 1.00pm
Term Time Only. Closing date for applications ~ Friday 6th November 2015. The job
is advertised on the NYCC website or you can obtain an application pack from
school.
Vacancy—Kitchen Assistant
We have a vacancy for a general kitchen assistant to cover long term maternity
leave. It is for 2 hours per day (11.30am-1.30pm). To apply or ask any further
questions, please contact Vivienne Sadler on 07779788585.
Parents evening
Thanks to every parent for attending to discuss the learning of your child. Feed-
back from parents included requests for a maths calculations evening and a
meeting about assessment without levels. We shall arrange both for after half
term, dates to follow. Parents of pupils in years 2 and 6 were given copies of the
criteria for a child to be awarded ‘national standard’. There are higher expecta-
tions on the pupils in all areas of the curriculum. We also had out sample test ma-
terials for both these year groups, these are available on-line – just search for sam-
ple national tests. In the spring term we shall give you more details of the tests and
the teacher assessment.
Clubs
Apologies as a few parents thought that the clubs were on this week, but they
weren’t because of parents’ evenings. They are on next week.
Oak Class
We have had a report of head lice, please check your child's hair and treat. Also
could you bring in an old shirt for the children to wear when they are doing art.
APPLE This week in Apple class we have focused on
Phonics and Maths activities. In our Phonics sessions
we have covered c, ck, and e. The children have
read words and phrases and draw pictures. In
Maths we have worked on weight and counting
and comparing different sets of objects. Thank you
for coming to our parent consultation evenings and we hope you found them useful.
OAK This week Oak class have been working really hard on their grammar and have been
coming up with some fantastic adverbs and adjectives to make sentences more
interesting. We have also focused on using some tricky punctuation; using colons, semi-
colons, bullet points and brackets. We really enjoyed our trip to Ilkley Literary Festival to
listen to Steve Cole talk. He gave the class lots of great ideas for their writing. In maths
we have been thinking about multiples and factors and learning how to recognise a
prime number.
WILLOW
We have been working hard this week on our
place value skills and accuracy when working
with money. Some of us have been ‘purchasing’
sports cars at Willow Class garage and working
out how much we can save. We have also been
developing skills in newspaper writing and using
peer marking to check we have all used
our Top Tips effectively.
BEECH We are really enjoying our work on measuring length this week.
Here are Monty and Minny measuring their playdough ‘snakes’
with their bead strings. We have continued to look at non-fiction
books in literacy and have been labelling features of a fire engine
and writing facts about fire engines and fire fighters. We watched
a very exciting video clip of a fire being put out.
ASH Thank you to everyone that came to Ash class assembly. We really enjoyed sharing all of
our work with you. We worked hard to speak clearly and confidently. In Maths we have
been playing games on the computer to practice our rapid recall of number bonds. We
have been looking at recycling in Science and had lots of ideas about what we could
recycle! Please can I remind all parents that we do not bring toys into school (unless it is
for show and tell—see timetable). We have had lots of upset over toys getting lost or
swapped, so please can you ensure that your children do not bring them.
Lisa’s
Kitchen
Monday 2nd November
Cheese & Tomato Pasta
Syrup Sponge & Custard
Tuesday 3rd November
Meatloaf
Raspberry Bun
Wednesday 4th November
Meat & Potato Pie
Chocolate Mandarin
Sponge
Thursday 5th November
Chicken Korma
Toffee Apple Cake &
Custard
Friday 6th November
Battered Fish
Fruit Salad
Monday 19th October Fish Fingers
Jam Roly Poly & Custard
Tuesday 20th October Pasta Bolognaise
Flapjack
Wednesday 21st October
Chicken Pie
Arctic Roll & Peaches
Thursday 22nd October Beef Hot Pot
Biscuit, Cheese & Grapes
Friday 23rd October
Sausage, Potato & Beans
Halloween Biscuits
PTA Update and Forthcoming Party
Sally, Carolyn and myself would like to say a big hello to you all! We are
looking forward to some exciting times ahead with you all in the coming
school year. As always, we welcome any fundraising ideas from you and
volunteers are always welcomed with enthusiasm!
After our first informal meeting on Friday we have a few ideas that we
would like to share with you, the first being an Autumn fancy dress
party. This will be held in school on Friday 23rd October 3.30pm til
6 pm. Please see details on posters around school.
We are also asking for donations of any magazines, as current as possible,
that you have finished with (these can be adults or children's) We aim to
leave these in reception where you may purchase one for £1.50, a great
way to catch up on the latest celebrity gossip, gardening or children's
programmes at a much reduced price!
Finally, any jam jars that you may have, please bring them in! We have
many uses for them and donations throughout the year are appreciated.
Many thanks in advance, Claire Gautam
This is the main choice—there is
a vegetarian option available
every day (as per menus
sent at the start of term)
Football Report
Joey, Lewis, George, Jonny, Thomas, Alfie, Dylan, Corey, Neive and Kitty
all played in a Y3/4 football tournament at Sandylands last Friday. The
first match was 5 nil to us, then the 2nd match was 1 nil to them, 3rd
match was 3 nil to us, 4th match was 4 nil to them and then the 5th
match was 3 nil to us. Overall we came 4th . We were really proud of our
efforts. By Joey Driscoll
Can you Help?
World Prematurity Day is observed on the 17th November to raise
awareness of pre term birth and the care of premature babies world-
wide. Approximately 15 million babies are born prematurely every year, 1
in 10 around the world.
I volunteer on the neo natal unit at Bradford Royal Infirmary on behalf of
Bliss (Bliss.org.uk) and every year on World Prematurity Day we give gifts to
everyone currently spending time on the unit. This includes purple knitted
hats, one for each child. If any of our parents, grandparents or other
family members are a dab hand at knitting and would like to help out I
would be most grateful! I will need the hats for the first week in November
ideally (they must be purple!). If you need a pattern, please visit http://
www.fiberfluxblog.com/2011/02/free-pattern.html?m=1. Thank you.
Claire Gautam
Parking – Collection
Be aware that it is VERY busy at drop off and collection times. Please
consider parking at the village hall and walking up to school.
Assemblies
Next week: Thursday 22nd October it is Willow class assembly at 9am.
Friday 23rd October – achievement assembly, pupils are invited to bring
in something to show and speak about that they have achieved outside
school.
Oak and Willow class had been challenged to write a short story about
space on the back of a postcard. Amber Dobson won 2 tickets to go to
Settle Stories to see Tales from Cosmos—a story that was set in 1910
about a man shot down 9 suns so that we only had un in the whole wide
world. It was great.
Garg
rave C
of E
Prim
ary
School
Thurs
day 1
5th
Octo
ber
2015
Gargrave CE (VC) Primary School, Neville
Road, Gargrave, BD23 3RE
Tel: 01756 749433 Fax: 01756 749463
Email: admin@gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk
Website: www.gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk
See overleaf for
Holly Eyles (super reading)
Lola Dobson (excellent behaviour)
Ayaan Ali (knowing space facts—confident)
Samuel Blackwell (fantastic number task homework)
Lars Keyworth (perseverance with his can work)
Daisy Hill (working hard during paired reading)
Emma Hargraves and Megan Webb (for kindness towards other children)
Ollie Metcalfe (not giving up with his tricky work)
Zara Pratt (expressive brainbuilder work)
Every Child Counts: Every Child Contributes Issue 6
Noticeboard
Skipping For Schools—Wednesday 21st October
We have invited Sports Skipping for Schools to host an all day skipping coaching
session where our children will have the opportunity to learn a range of skipping
skills. Skipping on a regular basis will help improve general levels of fitness and,
along with the different skipping skills and challenges taught during the day,
children will gain new found confidence in their own physical abilities. Parents are
invited to attend the presentation at the end of the day ay 2.50pm. Ropes will
also be available to buy on the day only at a cost of £4.00 each.
White Ribbons
Vacancy—Midday Supervisor
We are looking for a fun person who can work alongside the lunchtime staff to
ensure a safe, happy and active lunchtime. The person will be fully supported by
the other members of staff—5 hrs per week, working everyday 12.00pm – 1.00pm
Term Time Only. Closing date for applications ~ Friday 6th November 2015. The job
is advertised on the NYCC website or you can obtain an application pack from
school.
Vacancy—Kitchen Assistant
We have a vacancy for a general kitchen assistant to cover long term maternity
leave. It is for 2 hours per day (11.30am-1.30pm). To apply or ask any further
questions, please contact Vivienne Sadler on 07779788585.
Parents evening
Thanks to every parent for attending to discuss the learning of your child. Feed-
back from parents included requests for a maths calculations evening and a
meeting about assessment without levels. We shall arrange both for after half
term, dates to follow. Parents of pupils in years 2 and 6 were given copies of the
criteria for a child to be awarded ‘national standard’. There are higher expecta-
tions on the pupils in all areas of the curriculum. We also had out sample test ma-
terials for both these year groups, these are available on-line – just search for sam-
ple national tests. In the spring term we shall give you more details of the tests and
the teacher assessment.
Clubs
Apologies as a few parents thought that the clubs were on this week, but they
weren’t because of parents’ evenings. They are on next week.
Oak Class
We have had a report of head lice, please check your child's hair and treat. Also
could you bring in an old shirt for the children to wear when they are doing art.
APPLE This week in Apple class we have focused on
Phonics and Maths activities. In our Phonics sessions
we have covered c, ck, and e. The children have
read words and phrases and draw pictures. In
Maths we have worked on weight and counting
and comparing different sets of objects. Thank you
for coming to our parent consultation evenings and we hope you found them useful.
OAK This week Oak class have been working really hard on their grammar and have been
coming up with some fantastic adverbs and adjectives to make sentences more
interesting. We have also focused on using some tricky punctuation; using colons, semi-
colons, bullet points and brackets. We really enjoyed our trip to Ilkley Literary Festival to
listen to Steve Cole talk. He gave the class lots of great ideas for their writing. In maths
we have been thinking about multiples and factors and learning how to recognise a
prime number.
WILLOW
We have been working hard this week on our
place value skills and accuracy when working
with money. Some of us have been ‘purchasing’
sports cars at Willow Class garage and working
out how much we can save. We have also been
developing skills in newspaper writing and using
peer marking to check we have all used
our Top Tips effectively.
BEECH We are really enjoying our work on measuring length this week.
Here are Monty and Minny measuring their playdough ‘snakes’
with their bead strings. We have continued to look at non-fiction
books in literacy and have been labelling features of a fire engine
and writing facts about fire engines and fire fighters. We watched
a very exciting video clip of a fire being put out.
ASH Thank you to everyone that came to Ash class assembly. We really enjoyed sharing all of
our work with you. We worked hard to speak clearly and confidently. In Maths we have
been playing games on the computer to practice our rapid recall of number bonds. We
have been looking at recycling in Science and had lots of ideas about what we could
recycle! Please can I remind all parents that we do not bring toys into school (unless it is
for show and tell—see timetable). We have had lots of upset over toys getting lost or
swapped, so please can you ensure that your children do not bring them.
Lisa’s
Kitchen
Monday 2nd November
Cheese & Tomato Pasta
Syrup Sponge & Custard
Tuesday 3rd November
Meatloaf
Raspberry Bun
Wednesday 4th November
Meat & Potato Pie
Chocolate Mandarin
Sponge
Thursday 5th November
Chicken Korma
Toffee Apple Cake &
Custard
Friday 6th November
Battered Fish
Fruit Salad
Monday 19th October Fish Fingers
Jam Roly Poly & Custard
Tuesday 20th October Pasta Bolognaise
Flapjack
Wednesday 21st October
Chicken Pie
Arctic Roll & Peaches
Thursday 22nd October Beef Hot Pot
Biscuit, Cheese & Grapes
Friday 23rd October
Sausage, Potato & Beans
Halloween Biscuits
PTA Update and Forthcoming Party
Sally, Carolyn and myself would like to say a big hello to you all! We are
looking forward to some exciting times ahead with you all in the coming
school year. As always, we welcome any fundraising ideas from you and
volunteers are always welcomed with enthusiasm!
After our first informal meeting on Friday we have a few ideas that we
would like to share with you, the first being an Autumn fancy dress
party. This will be held in school on Friday 23rd October 3.30pm til
6 pm. Please see details on posters around school.
We are also asking for donations of any magazines, as current as possible,
that you have finished with (these can be adults or children's) We aim to
leave these in reception where you may purchase one for £1.50, a great
way to catch up on the latest celebrity gossip, gardening or children's
programmes at a much reduced price!
Finally, any jam jars that you may have, please bring them in! We have
many uses for them and donations throughout the year are appreciated.
Many thanks in advance, Claire Gautam
This is the main choice—there is
a vegetarian option available
every day (as per menus
sent at the start of term)
Football Report
Joey, Lewis, George, Jonny, Thomas, Alfie, Dylan, Corey, Neive and Kitty
all played in a Y3/4 football tournament at Sandylands last Friday. The
first match was 5 nil to us, then the 2nd match was 1 nil to them, 3rd
match was 3 nil to us, 4th match was 4 nil to them and then the 5th
match was 3 nil to us. Overall we came 4th . We were really proud of our
efforts. By Joey Driscoll
Can you Help?
World Prematurity Day is observed on the 17th November to raise
awareness of pre term birth and the care of premature babies world-
wide. Approximately 15 million babies are born prematurely every year, 1
in 10 around the world.
I volunteer on the neo natal unit at Bradford Royal Infirmary on behalf of
Bliss (Bliss.org.uk) and every year on World Prematurity Day we give gifts to
everyone currently spending time on the unit. This includes purple knitted
hats, one for each child. If any of our parents, grandparents or other
family members are a dab hand at knitting and would like to help out I
would be most grateful! I will need the hats for the first week in November
ideally (they must be purple!). If you need a pattern, please visit http://
www.fiberfluxblog.com/2011/02/free-pattern.html?m=1. Thank you.
Claire Gautam
Parking – Collection
Be aware that it is VERY busy at drop off and collection times. Please
consider parking at the village hall and walking up to school.
Assemblies
Next week: Thursday 22nd October it is Willow class assembly at 9am.
Friday 23rd October – achievement assembly, pupils are invited to bring
in something to show and speak about that they have achieved outside
school.
Oak and Willow class had been challenged to write a short story about
space on the back of a postcard. Amber Dobson won 2 tickets to go to
Settle Stories to see Tales from Cosmos—a story that was set in 1910
about a man shot down 9 suns so that we only had un in the whole wide
world. It was great.
Garg
rave C
of E
Prim
ary
School
Thurs
day 1
5th
Octo
ber
2015
Gargrave CE (VC) Primary School, Neville
Road, Gargrave, BD23 3RE
Tel: 01756 749433 Fax: 01756 749463
Email: admin@gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk
Website: www.gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk
See overleaf for
Holly Eyles (super reading)
Lola Dobson (excellent behaviour)
Ayaan Ali (knowing space facts—confident)
Samuel Blackwell (fantastic number task homework)
Lars Keyworth (perseverance with his can work)
Daisy Hill (working hard during paired reading)
Emma Hargraves and Megan Webb (for kindness towards other children)
Ollie Metcalfe (not giving up with his tricky work)
Zara Pratt (expressive brainbuilder work)
Every Child Counts: Every Child Contributes Issue 6
Master Copy
Skipping For Schools—Wednesday 21st October
We have invited Sports Skipping for Schools to host an all day skipping coaching
session where our children will have the opportunity to learn a range of skipping
skills. Skipping on a regular basis will help improve general levels of fitness and,
along with the different skipping skills and challenges taught during the day,
children will gain new found confidence in their own physical abilities. Parents are
invited to attend the presentation at the end of the day ay 2.50pm. Ropes will
also be available to buy on the day only at a cost of £4.00 each.
White Ribbons
Vacancy—Midday Supervisor
We are looking for a fun person who can work alongside the lunchtime staff to
ensure a safe, happy and active lunchtime. The person will be fully supported by
the other members of staff—5 hrs per week, working everyday 12.00pm – 1.00pm
Term Time Only. Closing date for applications ~ Friday 6th November 2015. The job
is advertised on the NYCC website or you can obtain an application pack from
school.
Vacancy—Kitchen Assistant
We have a vacancy for a general kitchen assistant to cover long term maternity
leave. It is for 2 hours per day (11.30am-1.30pm). To apply or ask any further
questions, please contact Vivienne Sadler on 07779788585.
Parents evening
Thanks to every parent for attending to discuss the learning of your child. Feed-
back from parents included requests for a maths calculations evening and a
meeting about assessment without levels. We shall arrange both for after half
term, dates to follow. Parents of pupils in years 2 and 6 were given copies of the
criteria for a child to be awarded ‘national standard’. There are higher expecta-
tions on the pupils in all areas of the curriculum. We also had out sample test ma-
terials for both these year groups, these are available on-line – just search for sam-
ple national tests. In the spring term we shall give you more details of the tests and
the teacher assessment.
Clubs
Apologies as a few parents thought that the clubs were on this week, but they
weren’t because of parents’ evenings. They are on next week.
Oak Class
We have had a report of head lice, please check your child's hair and treat. Also
could you bring in an old shirt for the children to wear when they are doing art.
APPLE This week in Apple class we have focused on
Phonics and Maths activities. In our Phonics sessions
we have covered c, ck, and e. The children have
read words and phrases and draw pictures. In
Maths we have worked on weight and counting
and comparing different sets of objects. Thank you
for coming to our parent consultation evenings and we hope you found them useful.
OAK This week Oak class have been working really hard on their grammar and have been
coming up with some fantastic adverbs and adjectives to make sentences more
interesting. We have also focused on using some tricky punctuation; using colons, semi-
colons, bullet points and brackets. We really enjoyed our trip to Ilkley Literary Festival to
listen to Steve Cole talk. He gave the class lots of great ideas for their writing. In maths
we have been thinking about multiples and factors and learning how to recognise a
prime number.
WILLOW
We have been working hard this week on our
place value skills and accuracy when working
with money. Some of us have been ‘purchasing’
sports cars at Willow Class garage and working
out how much we can save. We have also been
developing skills in newspaper writing and using
peer marking to check we have all used
our Top Tips effectively.
BEECH We are really enjoying our work on measuring length this week.
Here are Monty and Minny measuring their playdough ‘snakes’
with their bead strings. We have continued to look at non-fiction
books in literacy and have been labelling features of a fire engine
and writing facts about fire engines and fire fighters. We watched
a very exciting video clip of a fire being put out.
ASH Thank you to everyone that came to Ash class assembly. We really enjoyed sharing all of
our work with you. We worked hard to speak clearly and confidently. In Maths we have
been playing games on the computer to practice our rapid recall of number bonds. We
have been looking at recycling in Science and had lots of ideas about what we could
recycle! Please can I remind all parents that we do not bring toys into school (unless it is
for show and tell—see timetable). We have had lots of upset over toys getting lost or
swapped, so please can you ensure that your children do not bring them.
Lisa’s
Kitchen
Monday 2nd November
Cheese & Tomato Pasta
Syrup Sponge & Custard
Tuesday 3rd November
Meatloaf
Raspberry Bun
Wednesday 4th November
Meat & Potato Pie
Chocolate Mandarin
Sponge
Thursday 5th November
Chicken Korma
Toffee Apple Cake &
Custard
Friday 6th November
Battered Fish
Fruit Salad
Monday 19th October Fish Fingers
Jam Roly Poly & Custard
Tuesday 20th October Pasta Bolognaise
Flapjack
Wednesday 21st October
Chicken Pie
Arctic Roll & Peaches
Thursday 22nd October Beef Hot Pot
Biscuit, Cheese & Grapes
Friday 23rd October
Sausage, Potato & Beans
Halloween Biscuits
PTA Update and Forthcoming Party
Sally, Carolyn and myself would like to say a big hello to you all! We are
looking forward to some exciting times ahead with you all in the coming
school year. As always, we welcome any fundraising ideas from you and
volunteers are always welcomed with enthusiasm!
After our first informal meeting on Friday we have a few ideas that we
would like to share with you, the first being an Autumn fancy dress
party. This will be held in school on Friday 23rd October 3.30pm til
6 pm. Please see details on posters around school.
We are also asking for donations of any magazines, as current as possible,
that you have finished with (these can be adults or children's) We aim to
leave these in reception where you may purchase one for £1.50, a great
way to catch up on the latest celebrity gossip, gardening or children's
programmes at a much reduced price!
Finally, any jam jars that you may have, please bring them in! We have
many uses for them and donations throughout the year are appreciated.
Many thanks in advance, Claire Gautam
This is the main choice—there is
a vegetarian option available
every day (as per menus
sent at the start of term)
Football Report
Joey, Lewis, George, Jonny, Thomas, Alfie, Dylan, Corey, Neive and Kitty
all played in a Y3/4 football tournament at Sandylands last Friday. The
first match was 5 nil to us, then the 2nd match was 1 nil to them, 3rd
match was 3 nil to us, 4th match was 4 nil to them and then the 5th
match was 3 nil to us. Overall we came 4th . We were really proud of our
efforts. By Joey Driscoll
Can you Help?
World Prematurity Day is observed on the 17th November to raise
awareness of pre term birth and the care of premature babies world-
wide. Approximately 15 million babies are born prematurely every year, 1
in 10 around the world.
I volunteer on the neo natal unit at Bradford Royal Infirmary on behalf of
Bliss (Bliss.org.uk) and every year on World Prematurity Day we give gifts to
everyone currently spending time on the unit. This includes purple knitted
hats, one for each child. If any of our parents, grandparents or other
family members are a dab hand at knitting and would like to help out I
would be most grateful! I will need the hats for the first week in November
ideally (they must be purple!). If you need a pattern, please visit http://
www.fiberfluxblog.com/2011/02/free-pattern.html?m=1. Thank you.
Claire Gautam
Parking – Collection
Be aware that it is VERY busy at drop off and collection times. Please
consider parking at the village hall and walking up to school.
Assemblies
Next week: Thursday 22nd October it is Willow class assembly at 9am.
Friday 23rd October – achievement assembly, pupils are invited to bring
in something to show and speak about that they have achieved outside
school.
Oak and Willow class had been challenged to write a short story about
space on the back of a postcard. Amber Dobson won 2 tickets to go to
Settle Stories to see Tales from Cosmos—a story that was set in 1910
about a man shot down 9 suns so that we only had un in the whole wide
world. It was great.
Garg
rave C
of E
Prim
ary
School
Thurs
day 1
5th
Octo
ber
2015
Gargrave CE (VC) Primary School, Neville
Road, Gargrave, BD23 3RE
Tel: 01756 749433 Fax: 01756 749463
Email: admin@gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk
Website: www.gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk
See overleaf for
Holly Eyles (super reading)
Lola Dobson (excellent behaviour)
Ayaan Ali (knowing space facts—confident)
Samuel Blackwell (fantastic number task homework)
Lars Keyworth (perseverance with his can work)
Daisy Hill (working hard during paired reading)
Emma Hargraves and Megan Webb (for kindness towards other children)
Ollie Metcalfe (not giving up with his tricky work)
Zara Pratt (expressive brainbuilder work)
Every Child Counts: Every Child Contributes Issue 6
Lisa
Skipping For Schools—Wednesday 21st October
We have invited Sports Skipping for Schools to host an all day skipping coaching
session where our children will have the opportunity to learn a range of skipping
skills. Skipping on a regular basis will help improve general levels of fitness and,
along with the different skipping skills and challenges taught during the day,
children will gain new found confidence in their own physical abilities. Parents are
invited to attend the presentation at the end of the day ay 2.50pm. Ropes will
also be available to buy on the day only at a cost of £4.00 each.
White Ribbons
Vacancy—Midday Supervisor
We are looking for a fun person who can work alongside the lunchtime staff to
ensure a safe, happy and active lunchtime. The person will be fully supported by
the other members of staff—5 hrs per week, working everyday 12.00pm – 1.00pm
Term Time Only. Closing date for applications ~ Friday 6th November 2015. The job
is advertised on the NYCC website or you can obtain an application pack from
school.
Vacancy—Kitchen Assistant
We have a vacancy for a general kitchen assistant to cover long term maternity
leave. It is for 2 hours per day (11.30am-1.30pm). To apply or ask any further
questions, please contact Vivienne Sadler on 07779788585.
Parents evening
Thanks to every parent for attending to discuss the learning of your child. Feed-
back from parents included requests for a maths calculations evening and a
meeting about assessment without levels. We shall arrange both for after half
term, dates to follow. Parents of pupils in years 2 and 6 were given copies of the
criteria for a child to be awarded ‘national standard’. There are higher expecta-
tions on the pupils in all areas of the curriculum. We also had out sample test ma-
terials for both these year groups, these are available on-line – just search for sam-
ple national tests. In the spring term we shall give you more details of the tests and
the teacher assessment.
Clubs
Apologies as a few parents thought that the clubs were on this week, but they
weren’t because of parents’ evenings. They are on next week.
Oak Class
We have had a report of head lice, please check your child's hair and treat. Also
could you bring in an old shirt for the children to wear when they are doing art.
APPLE This week in Apple class we have focused on
Phonics and Maths activities. In our Phonics sessions
we have covered c, ck, and e. The children have
read words and phrases and draw pictures. In
Maths we have worked on weight and counting
and comparing different sets of objects. Thank you
for coming to our parent consultation evenings and we hope you found them useful.
OAK This week Oak class have been working really hard on their grammar and have been
coming up with some fantastic adverbs and adjectives to make sentences more
interesting. We have also focused on using some tricky punctuation; using colons, semi-
colons, bullet points and brackets. We really enjoyed our trip to Ilkley Literary Festival to
listen to Steve Cole talk. He gave the class lots of great ideas for their writing. In maths
we have been thinking about multiples and factors and learning how to recognise a
prime number.
WILLOW
We have been working hard this week on our
place value skills and accuracy when working
with money. Some of us have been ‘purchasing’
sports cars at Willow Class garage and working
out how much we can save. We have also been
developing skills in newspaper writing and using
peer marking to check we have all used
our Top Tips effectively.
BEECH We are really enjoying our work on measuring length this week.
Here are Monty and Minny measuring their playdough ‘snakes’
with their bead strings. We have continued to look at non-fiction
books in literacy and have been labelling features of a fire engine
and writing facts about fire engines and fire fighters. We watched
a very exciting video clip of a fire being put out.
ASH Thank you to everyone that came to Ash class assembly. We really enjoyed sharing all of
our work with you. We worked hard to speak clearly and confidently. In Maths we have
been playing games on the computer to practice our rapid recall of number bonds. We
have been looking at recycling in Science and had lots of ideas about what we could
recycle! Please can I remind all parents that we do not bring toys into school (unless it is
for show and tell—see timetable). We have had lots of upset over toys getting lost or
swapped, so please can you ensure that your children do not bring them.
Lisa’s
Kitchen
Monday 2nd November
Cheese & Tomato Pasta
Syrup Sponge & Custard
Tuesday 3rd November
Meatloaf
Raspberry Bun
Wednesday 4th November
Meat & Potato Pie
Chocolate Mandarin
Sponge
Thursday 5th November
Chicken Korma
Toffee Apple Cake &
Custard
Friday 6th November
Battered Fish
Fruit Salad
Monday 19th October Fish Fingers
Jam Roly Poly & Custard
Tuesday 20th October Pasta Bolognaise
Flapjack
Wednesday 21st October
Chicken Pie
Arctic Roll & Peaches
Thursday 22nd October Beef Hot Pot
Biscuit, Cheese & Grapes
Friday 23rd October
Sausage, Potato & Beans
Halloween Biscuits
PTA Update and Forthcoming Party
Sally, Carolyn and myself would like to say a big hello to you all! We are
looking forward to some exciting times ahead with you all in the coming
school year. As always, we welcome any fundraising ideas from you and
volunteers are always welcomed with enthusiasm!
After our first informal meeting on Friday we have a few ideas that we
would like to share with you, the first being an Autumn fancy dress
party. This will be held in school on Friday 23rd October 3.30pm til
6 pm. Please see details on posters around school.
We are also asking for donations of any magazines, as current as possible,
that you have finished with (these can be adults or children's) We aim to
leave these in reception where you may purchase one for £1.50, a great
way to catch up on the latest celebrity gossip, gardening or children's
programmes at a much reduced price!
Finally, any jam jars that you may have, please bring them in! We have
many uses for them and donations throughout the year are appreciated.
Many thanks in advance, Claire Gautam
This is the main choice—there is
a vegetarian option available
every day (as per menus
sent at the start of term)
Football Report
Joey, Lewis, George, Jonny, Thomas, Alfie, Dylan, Corey, Neive and Kitty
all played in a Y3/4 football tournament at Sandylands last Friday. The
first match was 5 nil to us, then the 2nd match was 1 nil to them, 3rd
match was 3 nil to us, 4th match was 4 nil to them and then the 5th
match was 3 nil to us. Overall we came 4th . We were really proud of our
efforts. By Joey Driscoll
Can you Help?
World Prematurity Day is observed on the 17th November to raise
awareness of pre term birth and the care of premature babies world-
wide. Approximately 15 million babies are born prematurely every year, 1
in 10 around the world.
I volunteer on the neo natal unit at Bradford Royal Infirmary on behalf of
Bliss (Bliss.org.uk) and every year on World Prematurity Day we give gifts to
everyone currently spending time on the unit. This includes purple knitted
hats, one for each child. If any of our parents, grandparents or other
family members are a dab hand at knitting and would like to help out I
would be most grateful! I will need the hats for the first week in November
ideally (they must be purple!). If you need a pattern, please visit http://
www.fiberfluxblog.com/2011/02/free-pattern.html?m=1. Thank you.
Claire Gautam
Parking – Collection
Be aware that it is VERY busy at drop off and collection times. Please
consider parking at the village hall and walking up to school.
Assemblies
Next week: Thursday 22nd October it is Willow class assembly at 9am.
Friday 23rd October – achievement assembly, pupils are invited to bring
in something to show and speak about that they have achieved outside
school.
Oak and Willow class had been challenged to write a short story about
space on the back of a postcard. Amber Dobson won 2 tickets to go to
Settle Stories to see Tales from Cosmos—a story that was set in 1910
about a man shot down 9 suns so that we only had un in the whole wide
world. It was great.
Garg
rave C
of E
Prim
ary
School
Thurs
day 1
5th
Octo
ber
2015
Gargrave CE (VC) Primary School, Neville
Road, Gargrave, BD23 3RE
Tel: 01756 749433 Fax: 01756 749463
Email: admin@gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk
Website: www.gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk
See overleaf for
Holly Eyles (super reading)
Lola Dobson (excellent behaviour)
Ayaan Ali (knowing space facts—confident)
Samuel Blackwell (fantastic number task homework)
Lars Keyworth (perseverance with his can work)
Daisy Hill (working hard during paired reading)
Emma Hargraves and Megan Webb (for kindness towards other children)
Ollie Metcalfe (not giving up with his tricky work)
Zara Pratt (expressive brainbuilder work)
Every Child Counts: Every Child Contributes Issue 6
Staffroom
Skipping For Schools—Wednesday 21st October
We have invited Sports Skipping for Schools to host an all day skipping coaching
session where our children will have the opportunity to learn a range of skipping
skills. Skipping on a regular basis will help improve general levels of fitness and,
along with the different skipping skills and challenges taught during the day,
children will gain new found confidence in their own physical abilities. Parents are
invited to attend the presentation at the end of the day ay 2.50pm. Ropes will
also be available to buy on the day only at a cost of £4.00 each.
White Ribbons
Vacancy—Midday Supervisor
We are looking for a fun person who can work alongside the lunchtime staff to
ensure a safe, happy and active lunchtime. The person will be fully supported by
the other members of staff—5 hrs per week, working everyday 12.00pm – 1.00pm
Term Time Only. Closing date for applications ~ Friday 6th November 2015. The job
is advertised on the NYCC website or you can obtain an application pack from
school.
Vacancy—Kitchen Assistant
We have a vacancy for a general kitchen assistant to cover long term maternity
leave. It is for 2 hours per day (11.30am-1.30pm). To apply or ask any further
questions, please contact Vivienne Sadler on 07779788585.
Parents evening
Thanks to every parent for attending to discuss the learning of your child. Feed-
back from parents included requests for a maths calculations evening and a
meeting about assessment without levels. We shall arrange both for after half
term, dates to follow. Parents of pupils in years 2 and 6 were given copies of the
criteria for a child to be awarded ‘national standard’. There are higher expecta-
tions on the pupils in all areas of the curriculum. We also had out sample test ma-
terials for both these year groups, these are available on-line – just search for sam-
ple national tests. In the spring term we shall give you more details of the tests and
the teacher assessment.
Clubs
Apologies as a few parents thought that the clubs were on this week, but they
weren’t because of parents’ evenings. They are on next week.
Oak Class
We have had a report of head lice, please check your child's hair and treat. Also
could you bring in an old shirt for the children to wear when they are doing art.
APPLE This week in Apple class we have focused on
Phonics and Maths activities. In our Phonics sessions
we have covered c, ck, and e. The children have
read words and phrases and draw pictures. In
Maths we have worked on weight and counting
and comparing different sets of objects. Thank you
for coming to our parent consultation evenings and we hope you found them useful.
OAK This week Oak class have been working really hard on their grammar and have been
coming up with some fantastic adverbs and adjectives to make sentences more
interesting. We have also focused on using some tricky punctuation; using colons, semi-
colons, bullet points and brackets. We really enjoyed our trip to Ilkley Literary Festival to
listen to Steve Cole talk. He gave the class lots of great ideas for their writing. In maths
we have been thinking about multiples and factors and learning how to recognise a
prime number.
WILLOW
We have been working hard this week on our
place value skills and accuracy when working
with money. Some of us have been ‘purchasing’
sports cars at Willow Class garage and working
out how much we can save. We have also been
developing skills in newspaper writing and using
peer marking to check we have all used
our Top Tips effectively.
BEECH We are really enjoying our work on measuring length this week.
Here are Monty and Minny measuring their playdough ‘snakes’
with their bead strings. We have continued to look at non-fiction
books in literacy and have been labelling features of a fire engine
and writing facts about fire engines and fire fighters. We watched
a very exciting video clip of a fire being put out.
ASH Thank you to everyone that came to Ash class assembly. We really enjoyed sharing all of
our work with you. We worked hard to speak clearly and confidently. In Maths we have
been playing games on the computer to practice our rapid recall of number bonds. We
have been looking at recycling in Science and had lots of ideas about what we could
recycle! Please can I remind all parents that we do not bring toys into school (unless it is
for show and tell—see timetable). We have had lots of upset over toys getting lost or
swapped, so please can you ensure that your children do not bring them.
Lisa’s
Kitchen
Monday 2nd November
Cheese & Tomato Pasta
Syrup Sponge & Custard
Tuesday 3rd November
Meatloaf
Raspberry Bun
Wednesday 4th November
Meat & Potato Pie
Chocolate Mandarin
Sponge
Thursday 5th November
Chicken Korma
Toffee Apple Cake &
Custard
Friday 6th November
Battered Fish
Fruit Salad
Monday 19th October Fish Fingers
Jam Roly Poly & Custard
Tuesday 20th October Pasta Bolognaise
Flapjack
Wednesday 21st October
Chicken Pie
Arctic Roll & Peaches
Thursday 22nd October Beef Hot Pot
Biscuit, Cheese & Grapes
Friday 23rd October
Sausage, Potato & Beans
Halloween Biscuits
PTA Update and Forthcoming Party
Sally, Carolyn and myself would like to say a big hello to you all! We are
looking forward to some exciting times ahead with you all in the coming
school year. As always, we welcome any fundraising ideas from you and
volunteers are always welcomed with enthusiasm!
After our first informal meeting on Friday we have a few ideas that we
would like to share with you, the first being an Autumn fancy dress
party. This will be held in school on Friday 23rd October 3.30pm til
6 pm. Please see details on posters around school.
We are also asking for donations of any magazines, as current as possible,
that you have finished with (these can be adults or children's) We aim to
leave these in reception where you may purchase one for £1.50, a great
way to catch up on the latest celebrity gossip, gardening or children's
programmes at a much reduced price!
Finally, any jam jars that you may have, please bring them in! We have
many uses for them and donations throughout the year are appreciated.
Many thanks in advance, Claire Gautam
This is the main choice—there is
a vegetarian option available
every day (as per menus
sent at the start of term)
Football Report
Joey, Lewis, George, Jonny, Thomas, Alfie, Dylan, Corey, Neive and Kitty
all played in a Y3/4 football tournament at Sandylands last Friday. The
first match was 5 nil to us, then the 2nd match was 1 nil to them, 3rd
match was 3 nil to us, 4th match was 4 nil to them and then the 5th
match was 3 nil to us. Overall we came 4th . We were really proud of our
efforts. By Joey Driscoll
Can you Help?
World Prematurity Day is observed on the 17th November to raise
awareness of pre term birth and the care of premature babies world-
wide. Approximately 15 million babies are born prematurely every year, 1
in 10 around the world.
I volunteer on the neo natal unit at Bradford Royal Infirmary on behalf of
Bliss (Bliss.org.uk) and every year on World Prematurity Day we give gifts to
everyone currently spending time on the unit. This includes purple knitted
hats, one for each child. If any of our parents, grandparents or other
family members are a dab hand at knitting and would like to help out I
would be most grateful! I will need the hats for the first week in November
ideally (they must be purple!). If you need a pattern, please visit http://
www.fiberfluxblog.com/2011/02/free-pattern.html?m=1. Thank you.
Claire Gautam
Parking – Collection
Be aware that it is VERY busy at drop off and collection times. Please
consider parking at the village hall and walking up to school.
Assemblies
Next week: Thursday 22nd October it is Willow class assembly at 9am.
Friday 23rd October – achievement assembly, pupils are invited to bring
in something to show and speak about that they have achieved outside
school.
Oak and Willow class had been challenged to write a short story about
space on the back of a postcard. Amber Dobson won 2 tickets to go to
Settle Stories to see Tales from Cosmos—a story that was set in 1910
about a man shot down 9 suns so that we only had un in the whole wide
world. It was great.
Garg
rave C
of E
Prim
ary
School
Thurs
day 1
5th
Octo
ber
2015
Gargrave CE (VC) Primary School, Neville
Road, Gargrave, BD23 3RE
Tel: 01756 749433 Fax: 01756 749463
Email: admin@gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk
Website: www.gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk
See overleaf for
Holly Eyles (super reading)
Lola Dobson (excellent behaviour)
Ayaan Ali (knowing space facts—confident)
Samuel Blackwell (fantastic number task homework)
Lars Keyworth (perseverance with his can work)
Daisy Hill (working hard during paired reading)
Emma Hargraves and Megan Webb (for kindness towards other children)
Ollie Metcalfe (not giving up with his tricky work)
Zara Pratt (expressive brainbuilder work)
Every Child Counts: Every Child Contributes Issue 6
Copy
Skipping For Schools—Wednesday 21st October
We have invited Sports Skipping for Schools to host an all day skipping coaching
session where our children will have the opportunity to learn a range of skipping
skills. Skipping on a regular basis will help improve general levels of fitness and,
along with the different skipping skills and challenges taught during the day,
children will gain new found confidence in their own physical abilities. Parents are
invited to attend the presentation at the end of the day ay 2.50pm. Ropes will
also be available to buy on the day only at a cost of £4.00 each.
White Ribbons
Vacancy—Midday Supervisor
We are looking for a fun person who can work alongside the lunchtime staff to
ensure a safe, happy and active lunchtime. The person will be fully supported by
the other members of staff—5 hrs per week, working everyday 12.00pm – 1.00pm
Term Time Only. Closing date for applications ~ Friday 6th November 2015. The job
is advertised on the NYCC website or you can obtain an application pack from
school.
Vacancy—Kitchen Assistant
We have a vacancy for a general kitchen assistant to cover long term maternity
leave. It is for 2 hours per day (11.30am-1.30pm). To apply or ask any further
questions, please contact Vivienne Sadler on 07779788585.
Parents evening
Thanks to every parent for attending to discuss the learning of your child. Feed-
back from parents included requests for a maths calculations evening and a
meeting about assessment without levels. We shall arrange both for after half
term, dates to follow. Parents of pupils in years 2 and 6 were given copies of the
criteria for a child to be awarded ‘national standard’. There are higher expecta-
tions on the pupils in all areas of the curriculum. We also had out sample test ma-
terials for both these year groups, these are available on-line – just search for sam-
ple national tests. In the spring term we shall give you more details of the tests and
the teacher assessment.
Clubs
Apologies as a few parents thought that the clubs were on this week, but they
weren’t because of parents’ evenings. They are on next week.
Oak Class
We have had a report of head lice, please check your child's hair and treat. Also
could you bring in an old shirt for the children to wear when they are doing art.
APPLE This week in Apple class we have focused on
Phonics and Maths activities. In our Phonics sessions
we have covered c, ck, and e. The children have
read words and phrases and draw pictures. In
Maths we have worked on weight and counting
and comparing different sets of objects. Thank you
for coming to our parent consultation evenings and we hope you found them useful.
OAK This week Oak class have been working really hard on their grammar and have been
coming up with some fantastic adverbs and adjectives to make sentences more
interesting. We have also focused on using some tricky punctuation; using colons, semi-
colons, bullet points and brackets. We really enjoyed our trip to Ilkley Literary Festival to
listen to Steve Cole talk. He gave the class lots of great ideas for their writing. In maths
we have been thinking about multiples and factors and learning how to recognise a
prime number.
WILLOW
We have been working hard this week on our
place value skills and accuracy when working
with money. Some of us have been ‘purchasing’
sports cars at Willow Class garage and working
out how much we can save. We have also been
developing skills in newspaper writing and using
peer marking to check we have all used
our Top Tips effectively.
BEECH We are really enjoying our work on measuring length this week.
Here are Monty and Minny measuring their playdough ‘snakes’
with their bead strings. We have continued to look at non-fiction
books in literacy and have been labelling features of a fire engine
and writing facts about fire engines and fire fighters. We watched
a very exciting video clip of a fire being put out.
ASH Thank you to everyone that came to Ash class assembly. We really enjoyed sharing all of
our work with you. We worked hard to speak clearly and confidently. In Maths we have
been playing games on the computer to practice our rapid recall of number bonds. We
have been looking at recycling in Science and had lots of ideas about what we could
recycle! Please can I remind all parents that we do not bring toys into school (unless it is
for show and tell—see timetable). We have had lots of upset over toys getting lost or
swapped, so please can you ensure that your children do not bring them.
Lisa’s
Kitchen
Monday 2nd November
Cheese & Tomato Pasta
Syrup Sponge & Custard
Tuesday 3rd November
Meatloaf
Raspberry Bun
Wednesday 4th November
Meat & Potato Pie
Chocolate Mandarin
Sponge
Thursday 5th November
Chicken Korma
Toffee Apple Cake &
Custard
Friday 6th November
Battered Fish
Fruit Salad
Monday 19th October Fish Fingers
Jam Roly Poly & Custard
Tuesday 20th October Pasta Bolognaise
Flapjack
Wednesday 21st October
Chicken Pie
Arctic Roll & Peaches
Thursday 22nd October Beef Hot Pot
Biscuit, Cheese & Grapes
Friday 23rd October
Sausage, Potato & Beans
Halloween Biscuits
PTA Update and Forthcoming Party
Sally, Carolyn and myself would like to say a big hello to you all! We are
looking forward to some exciting times ahead with you all in the coming
school year. As always, we welcome any fundraising ideas from you and
volunteers are always welcomed with enthusiasm!
After our first informal meeting on Friday we have a few ideas that we
would like to share with you, the first being an Autumn fancy dress
party. This will be held in school on Friday 23rd October 3.30pm til
6 pm. Please see details on posters around school.
We are also asking for donations of any magazines, as current as possible,
that you have finished with (these can be adults or children's) We aim to
leave these in reception where you may purchase one for £1.50, a great
way to catch up on the latest celebrity gossip, gardening or children's
programmes at a much reduced price!
Finally, any jam jars that you may have, please bring them in! We have
many uses for them and donations throughout the year are appreciated.
Many thanks in advance, Claire Gautam
This is the main choice—there is
a vegetarian option available
every day (as per menus
sent at the start of term)
Football Report
Joey, Lewis, George, Jonny, Thomas, Alfie, Dylan, Corey, Neive and Kitty
all played in a Y3/4 football tournament at Sandylands last Friday. The
first match was 5 nil to us, then the 2nd match was 1 nil to them, 3rd
match was 3 nil to us, 4th match was 4 nil to them and then the 5th
match was 3 nil to us. Overall we came 4th . We were really proud of our
efforts. By Joey Driscoll
Can you Help?
World Prematurity Day is observed on the 17th November to raise
awareness of pre term birth and the care of premature babies world-
wide. Approximately 15 million babies are born prematurely every year, 1
in 10 around the world.
I volunteer on the neo natal unit at Bradford Royal Infirmary on behalf of
Bliss (Bliss.org.uk) and every year on World Prematurity Day we give gifts to
everyone currently spending time on the unit. This includes purple knitted
hats, one for each child. If any of our parents, grandparents or other
family members are a dab hand at knitting and would like to help out I
would be most grateful! I will need the hats for the first week in November
ideally (they must be purple!). If you need a pattern, please visit http://
www.fiberfluxblog.com/2011/02/free-pattern.html?m=1. Thank you.
Claire Gautam
Parking – Collection
Be aware that it is VERY busy at drop off and collection times. Please
consider parking at the village hall and walking up to school.
Assemblies
Next week: Thursday 22nd October it is Willow class assembly at 9am.
Friday 23rd October – achievement assembly, pupils are invited to bring
in something to show and speak about that they have achieved outside
school.
Oak and Willow class had been challenged to write a short story about
space on the back of a postcard. Amber Dobson won 2 tickets to go to
Settle Stories to see Tales from Cosmos—a story that was set in 1910
about a man shot down 9 suns so that we only had un in the whole wide
world. It was great.
Garg
rave C
of E
Prim
ary
School
Thurs
day 1
5th
Octo
ber
2015
Gargrave CE (VC) Primary School, Neville
Road, Gargrave, BD23 3RE
Tel: 01756 749433 Fax: 01756 749463
Email: admin@gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk
Website: www.gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk
See overleaf for
Holly Eyles (super reading)
Lola Dobson (excellent behaviour)
Ayaan Ali (knowing space facts—confident)
Samuel Blackwell (fantastic number task homework)
Lars Keyworth (perseverance with his can work)
Daisy Hill (working hard during paired reading)
Emma Hargraves and Megan Webb (for kindness towards other children)
Ollie Metcalfe (not giving up with his tricky work)
Zara Pratt (expressive brainbuilder work)
Every Child Counts: Every Child Contributes Issue 6
Mrs Deville
Skipping For Schools—Wednesday 21st October
We have invited Sports Skipping for Schools to host an all day skipping coaching
session where our children will have the opportunity to learn a range of skipping
skills. Skipping on a regular basis will help improve general levels of fitness and,
along with the different skipping skills and challenges taught during the day,
children will gain new found confidence in their own physical abilities. Parents are
invited to attend the presentation at the end of the day ay 2.50pm. Ropes will
also be available to buy on the day only at a cost of £4.00 each.
White Ribbons
Vacancy—Midday Supervisor
We are looking for a fun person who can work alongside the lunchtime staff to
ensure a safe, happy and active lunchtime. The person will be fully supported by
the other members of staff—5 hrs per week, working everyday 12.00pm – 1.00pm
Term Time Only. Closing date for applications ~ Friday 6th November 2015. The job
is advertised on the NYCC website or you can obtain an application pack from
school.
Vacancy—Kitchen Assistant
We have a vacancy for a general kitchen assistant to cover long term maternity
leave. It is for 2 hours per day (11.30am-1.30pm). To apply or ask any further
questions, please contact Vivienne Sadler on 07779788585.
Parents evening
Thanks to every parent for attending to discuss the learning of your child. Feed-
back from parents included requests for a maths calculations evening and a
meeting about assessment without levels. We shall arrange both for after half
term, dates to follow. Parents of pupils in years 2 and 6 were given copies of the
criteria for a child to be awarded ‘national standard’. There are higher expecta-
tions on the pupils in all areas of the curriculum. We also had out sample test ma-
terials for both these year groups, these are available on-line – just search for sam-
ple national tests. In the spring term we shall give you more details of the tests and
the teacher assessment.
Clubs
Apologies as a few parents thought that the clubs were on this week, but they
weren’t because of parents’ evenings. They are on next week.
Oak Class
We have had a report of head lice, please check your child's hair and treat. Also
could you bring in an old shirt for the children to wear when they are doing art.
APPLE This week in Apple class we have focused on
Phonics and Maths activities. In our Phonics sessions
we have covered c, ck, and e. The children have
read words and phrases and draw pictures. In
Maths we have worked on weight and counting
and comparing different sets of objects. Thank you
for coming to our parent consultation evenings and we hope you found them useful.
OAK This week Oak class have been working really hard on their grammar and have been
coming up with some fantastic adverbs and adjectives to make sentences more
interesting. We have also focused on using some tricky punctuation; using colons, semi-
colons, bullet points and brackets. We really enjoyed our trip to Ilkley Literary Festival to
listen to Steve Cole talk. He gave the class lots of great ideas for their writing. In maths
we have been thinking about multiples and factors and learning how to recognise a
prime number.
WILLOW
We have been working hard this week on our
place value skills and accuracy when working
with money. Some of us have been ‘purchasing’
sports cars at Willow Class garage and working
out how much we can save. We have also been
developing skills in newspaper writing and using
peer marking to check we have all used
our Top Tips effectively.
BEECH We are really enjoying our work on measuring length this week.
Here are Monty and Minny measuring their playdough ‘snakes’
with their bead strings. We have continued to look at non-fiction
books in literacy and have been labelling features of a fire engine
and writing facts about fire engines and fire fighters. We watched
a very exciting video clip of a fire being put out.
ASH Thank you to everyone that came to Ash class assembly. We really enjoyed sharing all of
our work with you. We worked hard to speak clearly and confidently. In Maths we have
been playing games on the computer to practice our rapid recall of number bonds. We
have been looking at recycling in Science and had lots of ideas about what we could
recycle! Please can I remind all parents that we do not bring toys into school (unless it is
for show and tell—see timetable). We have had lots of upset over toys getting lost or
swapped, so please can you ensure that your children do not bring them.
Lisa’s
Kitchen
Monday 2nd November
Cheese & Tomato Pasta
Syrup Sponge & Custard
Tuesday 3rd November
Meatloaf
Raspberry Bun
Wednesday 4th November
Meat & Potato Pie
Chocolate Mandarin
Sponge
Thursday 5th November
Chicken Korma
Toffee Apple Cake &
Custard
Friday 6th November
Battered Fish
Fruit Salad
Monday 19th October Fish Fingers
Jam Roly Poly & Custard
Tuesday 20th October Pasta Bolognaise
Flapjack
Wednesday 21st October
Chicken Pie
Arctic Roll & Peaches
Thursday 22nd October Beef Hot Pot
Biscuit, Cheese & Grapes
Friday 23rd October
Sausage, Potato & Beans
Halloween Biscuits
PTA Update and Forthcoming Party
Sally, Carolyn and myself would like to say a big hello to you all! We are
looking forward to some exciting times ahead with you all in the coming
school year. As always, we welcome any fundraising ideas from you and
volunteers are always welcomed with enthusiasm!
After our first informal meeting on Friday we have a few ideas that we
would like to share with you, the first being an Autumn fancy dress
party. This will be held in school on Friday 23rd October 3.30pm til
6 pm. Please see details on posters around school.
We are also asking for donations of any magazines, as current as possible,
that you have finished with (these can be adults or children's) We aim to
leave these in reception where you may purchase one for £1.50, a great
way to catch up on the latest celebrity gossip, gardening or children's
programmes at a much reduced price!
Finally, any jam jars that you may have, please bring them in! We have
many uses for them and donations throughout the year are appreciated.
Many thanks in advance, Claire Gautam
This is the main choice—there is
a vegetarian option available
every day (as per menus
sent at the start of term)
Football Report
Joey, Lewis, George, Jonny, Thomas, Alfie, Dylan, Corey, Neive and Kitty
all played in a Y3/4 football tournament at Sandylands last Friday. The
first match was 5 nil to us, then the 2nd match was 1 nil to them, 3rd
match was 3 nil to us, 4th match was 4 nil to them and then the 5th
match was 3 nil to us. Overall we came 4th . We were really proud of our
efforts. By Joey Driscoll
Can you Help?
World Prematurity Day is observed on the 17th November to raise
awareness of pre term birth and the care of premature babies world-
wide. Approximately 15 million babies are born prematurely every year, 1
in 10 around the world.
I volunteer on the neo natal unit at Bradford Royal Infirmary on behalf of
Bliss (Bliss.org.uk) and every year on World Prematurity Day we give gifts to
everyone currently spending time on the unit. This includes purple knitted
hats, one for each child. If any of our parents, grandparents or other
family members are a dab hand at knitting and would like to help out I
would be most grateful! I will need the hats for the first week in November
ideally (they must be purple!). If you need a pattern, please visit http://
www.fiberfluxblog.com/2011/02/free-pattern.html?m=1. Thank you.
Claire Gautam
Parking – Collection
Be aware that it is VERY busy at drop off and collection times. Please
consider parking at the village hall and walking up to school.
Assemblies
Next week: Thursday 22nd October it is Willow class assembly at 9am.
Friday 23rd October – achievement assembly, pupils are invited to bring
in something to show and speak about that they have achieved outside
school.
Oak and Willow class had been challenged to write a short story about
space on the back of a postcard. Amber Dobson won 2 tickets to go to
Settle Stories to see Tales from Cosmos—a story that was set in 1910
about a man shot down 9 suns so that we only had un in the whole wide
world. It was great.
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